Definition/Meaning of hip

• English - Noun: hip (plural hips) The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue . The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes . In a bridge truss , the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord . 1887, John Alexander Low Waddell, General Specifications for Highway Bridges of Iron and Steel: in all bridges preference will…
• English - Verb: hip (third-person singular simple present hips, present participle hipping, simple past and past participle hipped) To use one's hips to bump into someone. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip (" cross-buttock "). 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. To make with a hip or…
• English - Adjective: hip (comparative hipper, superlative hippest) (dated, slang) Aware , informed , up-to-date , trendy . 1975 October 27, Jeff Greenfield, “Ragged but Funny”, in New York, volume 8, number 43, page 65: “Saturday Night” has an explicitly hip , cynical outlook, coupled with an impressive amount of freedom. 1971, Joni Mitchell, “Blue”, in Blue: Everybody's saying that / Hell's the hippest way to go /…
• English - Interjection: hip An exclamation to invoke a united cheer: hip hip hooray .
• English - Anagrams: phi