hip

Multiple Entries:
  hip    HIP  

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hip1

▶noun

• 1 a projection of the pelvis and upper thigh bone on each side of the body.

  ■ (hips) the circumference of the body at the buttocks.

• 2 the edge formed where two sloping sides of a roof meet.

– phrases
be joined at the hip informal (of two people) be inseparable.

– origin OE hype, of Gmc origin; rel. to hop1.

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hip2 (also rose hip)

▶noun the fruit of a rose, especially a wild kind.

– origin OE hēope, hīope, of W. Gmc origin.

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hip3

▶adjective (hipper, hippest) informal

• 1 fashionable.

• 2 (hip to) aware of or informed about.

– derivatives
hipness noun.

– origin early 20th cent. (orig. US): of unknown origin.

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hip4

▶exclamation introducing a communal cheer.

– origin C18: of unknown origin.

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HIP

▶abbreviation (in the UK) home information pack, a set of information about a house that a seller must provide to a potential buyer.