hip
Forms
- Plural
- hips
- present (v1)
- hip
- past (v2)
- hipped
- past participle (v3)
- hipped
- present participle
- hipping
- 3rd person singular
- hips
Definitions
1.The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
2.The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
3.In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
4.The fruit of a rose.
1.To use one's hips to bump into someone.
2.To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
3.To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
4.To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3026
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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”).