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.

Common collocations

• hip socket Noun + noun

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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