• enPR: hĭp, IPA: /hɪp/

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, Latin cubāre, Ancient Greek κύβος, Albanian sup, Sanskrit शुप्ति), from *ḱew- ("to bend").

hip (plural hips)

1. (anatomy) The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
2. The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
3. In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
4. (slang, possibly, dated) A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.
   • 1953, William Lee [pseudonym; William S. Burroughs], Junkie, New York: Ace Books:

     Ike explained to me that the Mexican government issued permits to hips allowing them a definite quantity of morphine per month at wholesale prices.

• French: hanche
• German: Hüfte
• Italian: anca
• Portuguese: quadril, anca
• Russian: бедро́
• Spanish: cadera

hip (hips, present participle hipping; simple past and past participle hipped)

1. (chiefly, sports) To use one's hips to bump into someone.
2. (wrestling) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
3. 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.
4. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.

From Middle English hepe, heppe, hipe, from Old English hēope, from Proto-Germanic *heupǭ (compare Dutch joop, German Hiefe, Faroese hjúpa), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (compare Prussian kaāubri, Lithuanian kaubre).

hip (plural hips)

1. The fruit of a rose.
   • c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. […], London: […] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, […], published 1595, →OCLC ↗, [line 175-178]:

     1. BROTHER. […] What doo you gather there?
     OLD MAN. Hips and Hawes, and stickes and strawes, and thinges that I gather on the ground my sonne.

   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     The oaks bear mast, the briars scarlet hips;
     The bounteous housewife, Nature, on each bush
     Lays her full mess before you.

• French: cynorrhodon
• German: Hagebutte
• Portuguese: cinórrodo
• Spanish: escaramujo

hip (comparative hipper, superlative hippest)

1. (slang) Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy. [from early 20th c., popularized in 1960s]

• cool, groovy

• French: branché
• German: hip

hip (hips, present participle hipping; simple past and past participle hipped)

1. (transitive, slang) To inform, to make knowledgeable.

• hep
• hipster
• hippy
• hippie

1. An exclamation to invoke a united cheer: hip hip hooray.

• enPR: hĭp, IPA: /hɪp/

hip (plural hips)

1. (British) Acronym of Home Information Pack
2. (travel industry) Acronym of Higher Intermediate Point
3. (music) Acronym of historically informed performance

1. A female given name.
2. Surname.