hip

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.

   in all bridges preference will be given to designs having struts for hip verticals

2. 2
   noun

   A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.

   Ike explained to me that the Mexican government issued permits to hips allowing them a definite quantity of morphine per month at wholesale prices.

3. 3
   noun

   The fruit of a rose.

   1. BROTHER. […] What doo you gather there? OLD MAN. Hips and Hawes, and stickes and strawes, and thinges that I gather on the ground my sonne.

4. 4
   adj

   Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy.

   I am also starting a folk-entourage school where you can go into gladitorial training to hang out in hip crowds with budding young folk stars.

5. 5
   verb

   To inform, to make knowledgeable.

   No doubt, too, Sand must have hipped him quietly in a whisper somewhere what was happening with the lover

6. 6
   adj

   informed about the latest trends

7. 7
   noun

   either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh

8. 8
   noun

   the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum

Etymology

From Middle English hipe, hupe, from Old English hype, from Proto-Germanic *hupiz (compare Dutch heup, Low German Huop, German Hüfte), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (compare Welsh cysgu (“to sleep”), Latin cubāre (“to lie”), Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos, “hollow in the hips”), Albanian sup (“shoulder”), Sanskrit शुप्ति (śúpti, “shoulder”)), from *ḱew- (“to bend”). More at high. The sense "drug addict" derives from addicts lying on their hips while using certain drugs such as opium.