hip

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Either of the two parts of the body on each side, below the waist and above the legs.

   She stood with her hands on her hips.

2. 2
   noun

   The joint that connects the leg bone to the rest of the body.

   My grandmother had an operation on her hip.

3. 3
   adj

   Fashionable and up to date with the latest trends.

   That new café is the hip place to be seen.

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.

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