hip
The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
The fruit of a rose.
Verb 4 meanings
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 hips, as a roof.
Interjection 1 meaning
An exclamation to invoke a united cheer: hip hip hooray.
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”).
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HIP at a glance
HIP has 3 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (H 4 + I 1 + P 3) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,172 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with hip
All rhymes- RELATIONSHIP17
- SHIP9
- LEADERSHIP16
- CHAMPIONSHIP26
- PARTNERSHIP18
- MEMBERSHIP21
- OWNERSHIP17
- FRIENDSHIP19
- CHIP11
- WORSHIP15
- SCHOLARSHIP21
- CITIZENSHIP27
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