Noun: hip
Sample Sentences
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in all bridges preference will be given to designs having struts for hip verticals [1887, John Alexander Low Waddell, General Specifications for Highway Bridges of Iron and Steel:]
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Ike explained to me that the Mexican government issued permits to hips allowing them a definite quantity of morphine per month at wholesale prices. [1953, William Lee [pseudonym; William S. Burroughs], Junkie, New York: Ace Books:]
Nouns inflected like hip
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). More at high. The sense "drug addict" derives from addicts lying on their hips while using certain drugs such as opium. See: Middle English Nouns '
hipe', Old English Nouns '
hype', Dutch Nouns '
heup', German Nouns '
Hüfte', Latin Nouns '
cubāre', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κύβος'.
Verbs referencing "hip"
German Nouns
Hüfte, Swedish Nouns
nypon.