interj. Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!

n. [ OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG. huf, G. hüfte, Dan. hofte, Sw. höft, Goth. hups; cf. Icel. huppr, and also Gr. &unr_; the hollow above the hips of cattle, and Lith. kumpis ham. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord. Waddell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hip bone (Anat.), the innominate bone; -- called also haunch bone and huckle bone. --
Hip girdle (Anat.), the pelvic girdle. --
Hip joint (Anat.), the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone. --
Hip knob (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge. --
Hip molding (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing. --
Hip rafter (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof. --
Hip roof,
Hipped roof (Arch.), a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See Hip, n., 2., and Hip, v. t., 3. --
Hip tile, a tile made to cover the hip of a roof. --
To catch upon the hip, or
To have on the hip, to have or get the advantage of; -- a figure probably derived from wresting. Shak. --
To smite hip and thigh, to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly. Judg. xv. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hepe, AS. heópe; cf. OHG. hiufo a bramble bush. ] (Bot.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina); called also rose hip. [ Written also hop, hep. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Hip tree (Bot.), the dog-rose. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hipped p. pr. & vb. n. Hipping. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock). [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hipped roof. See Hip roof, under Hip. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Aware of the latest ideas, trends, fashions, and developments in popular music and entertainment culture; not square; -- same as hep.
Syn. -- tuned in. [ PJC ]

2. Aware of the latest fashions and behaving as expected socially, especially in clothing style and musical taste; exhibiting an air of casual sophistication; cool; with it; -- used mostly among young people in the teens to twenties. [ PJC ]

n. Either of two large flaring bones, each forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis.
Syn. -- innominate bone. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Hiped p. pr. & vb. n. Hiping ] (Wrestling) To throw by means of a hipe. -- Hip"er n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. A small portable flask, usually made of metal, used to hold liquor.
Syn. -- pocket flask. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Lame in the hip. [ R. ] Gower.

adj. having hips which are not prominent; seeming to have no hips; as, slim and hipless; -- of people. Opposite of broad-hipped [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]