hip
pronunciation
How to pronounce hip in British English:
UK [hɪp]
How to pronounce hip in American English:
US [hɪp]
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- Noun:
- either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh
- the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates
- the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum
- the fruit of a rose plant
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- Adjective:
- informed about the latest trends
Word Origin
- hip
- hip: English has two hips. The anatomical hip [OE] comes from a prehistoric Germanic *khupiz, whose formal and semantic similarity to Greek kúbos ‘six-sided figure’, hence ‘pelvic cavity’ (source of English cube) suggests that the two may be related. The rose-hip [OE] goes back to a West Germanic *kheup-, which survives also in Dutch joop ‘rose-hip’.=> cube
- hip (n.1)
- "part of the body where pelvis and thigh join," Old English hype "hip," from Proto-Germanic *hupiz (cognates: Dutch heup, German Hüfte, Gothic hups "hip"), from PIE *qeub- "to bend." Hip of a roof is from late 17c.
- hip (n.2)
- "seed pod" (especially of wild rose), Old English heope, hiope "seed vessel of the wild rose," from Proto-Germanic *hiup- (cognates: dialectal Norwegian hjupa, Old Saxon hiopo, Dutch joop, Old High German hiafo, dialectal German Hiefe, Old English hiopa "briar, bramble").
- hip (adj.)
- "informed," 1904, apparently originally in black slang, probably a variant of hep (1), with which it is identical in sense, though it is recorded four years earlier.
- hip (interj.)
- exclamation used to introduce a united cheer (compare hip-hip-hurrah), 1827, earlier hep; compare German hepp, to animals a cry to attack game, to mobs a cry to attack Jews (see hep (2)); perhaps a natural sound (such as Latin eho, heus).
Example
- 1. Her arm was shattered and her right hip was fractured .
- 2. The most common are knee reconstructions , spinal surgeries , hip replacements and dental work .
- 3. Also take note of the hip position with in the harness .
- 4. Charles zhang is practically the personification of hip , 21st-century china .
- 5. This year 's winner studies hip replacement .