hip
verb · noun
Simple meaning
The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
Pronunciation
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hipIPA pronunciation (US)
ˈhɪp
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
verb
chiefly sports
To use one's hips to bump into someone.
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.
transitiveslang
To inform, to make knowledgeable.
noun
anatomy
The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
The fruit of a rose plant
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.
A diminutive of the female given name Hippolyta.
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: To use one's hips to bump into someone.
Used this way, hip is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. This is a sporting use: familiar to anyone who follows the game, and puzzling to anyone who does not.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- No strong connotation
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Where it naturally appears
- Sports
- News/reporting
- Everyday conversation
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use hip
- “She wears her backpack slung low on her hip.”noun
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