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▪ I. hip, n.1|hɪp|
Forms: 1 hype, 3 heppe, 3–4 hupe, 4–5 hepe, 4–7 hippe, 5 hype, 5–6 hyppe, 6–7 hyp, 4– hip.
[OE. hype masc. = OLG. *hupi (MDu. höpe, hōpe, hēpe, huepe, Du. heup fem.), OHG. huf, pl. huffi (MHG. huf, pl. hüffe, Ger. hüfte fem.), Goth. hups, pl. hupeis:—OTeut. *hupi-z, pre-Teut. *kubis.]
1. a. The projecting part of the body on each side formed by the lateral expansions of the pelvis and upper part of the thigh-bone, in men and quadrupeds; the haunch. Also used for the hip-joint.
971Blickl. Hom. 11 Anra ȝehwylc hæfde sweord ofer his hype. c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 159/43 Clunes, hypas. a1225Ancr. R. 280 He iseih hu ueole þe grimme wrastlare of helle breid up on his hupe. c1325Poem Times Edw. II, 134 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 329 A litel lettre In a box upon his hepe. 1382Wyclif Gen. xxiv. 3 Put thin hoond vndir myn hip [Vulg. femur]. c1386Chaucer Prol. 472 A foot mantel aboute hir hipes [v.rr. hypes, hepis, hippes, hupes] large. c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 750/8 Hic lumbus, a hepe. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon x. 267 Wounded hym sore vpon his hippe. 1581Mulcaster Positions vi. (1887) 48 Daunsing..strengtheneth weake hippes, fainting legges. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. xxi. 233 They were lame, and their Hyps contracted and crampt. 1753Hogarth Anal. Beauty x. 60 To be held fast to the out-side of the hip. 1882Ouida Maremma I. 110 Her hands lightly resting on her hips.
fig.1879J. Burroughs Locusts & W. Honey 127 A little trout-lake which the mountain carried high on his hip.
†b. A projecting part of female dress, covering the hip. Obs.
1710Steele Tatler No. 245 ⁋2 [She] carried off the following Goods..Two Pair of Hips of the newest Fashion.
c. Zool. The first joint of the leg in the Arthropoda: = coxa 2.
1834[see coxa 2]. 1834McMurtrie Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 307 Their legs..are composed of seven joints, of which the two first form the hip, the third the thigh, the fourth and fifth the tibia, and the two others the tarsus.
2. Phrases.
a. down in the hip(s: said of a horse when the haunch-bone is injured; hence fig., out of sorts, out of spirits. (Cf. also hip n.3)
1729Swift Grand Question Debated 178 The Doctor was plaguily down in the hips. 1865Youatt Horse xvii. (1872) 382 The horse is then said to be down in the hip.
b. on or upon the hip (usually, to take, get, have one on the hip, phrases taken from wrestling): at a disadvantage; in a position in which one is likely to be overthrown or overcome.
c1460Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 90, I shrew you so smart, And me on my hyppys, bot if Igart Abate. 1587Golding De Mornay i. 9 If these..be but taken on the hip, they fall to quaking, they crie out vnto heauen. 1591Harington Orl. Fur. xlvi. cxvii. 4 To get the Pagan on the hippe: And hauing caught him right, he doth him lift, By nimble sleight. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. iv. i. 334 Now infidell I haue thee on the hip. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. x. lix. (1612) 260 When Dauid seem'd, in common sence, alreadie on the hip. 1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. i. §4 (1669) 63/2 Sometimes the Christain hath his Enemy on the hip, yea, on the ground. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v., Upon the Hip, at an Advantage, in Wrestling or Business. 1865Trollope Belton Est. xvii. 199 Feeling that she had the culprit on the hip. 1967Listener 16 Nov. 628/3 You have me on the hip here a bit because I think..that all these old ideas we had are as dead as the dodo.
†c. to fetch over the hips: see quots. Obs.
1586Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 89/1 The lord Thomas being iustice or vicedeputie..fetcht both the Alens so roundlie ouer the hips..as they were the more egerlie spurd to compasse his confusion. 1624Sanderson 12 Serm. (1637) 184 Could any of you take it well at your neighbours hand, should hee..fetch you over the hippe upon a branch of some blinde, uncouth, and pretermitted Statute?
d. hip and thigh: with overwhelming blows or slaughter; unsparingly. Usually with smite or the like. (Of Biblical origin.)
1560Bible (Genev.) Judg. xv. 8 He smote them hippe and thigh with a mighty plague. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 115 Destroy all opposition whatsoever, Hip and Thigh..Root and Branch. 1832Tennyson Dream Fair Women 238 Moreover it is written that my race Hew'd Ammon, hip and thigh, from Aroer On Arnon unto Minneth. 1863G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators I. 255 To smite the heathen hip-and-thigh with the edge of the sword.
attrib.1832Southey in Q. Rev. XLVII. 502 A hip-and-thigh reformer..has replied to Lord Nugent.
3. Arch.
a. A projecting inclined edge on a roof, extending from the ridge or apex to the eaves, and having a slope on each side; the rafter at this edge, the hip-rafter: see also attrib. uses in 4 c.
1690Leybourn Curs. Math. 901 The Bricklayer sometimes will require to have running measure for Hyps and Valleys. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 240 Here at London, the Vallies are commonly tiled with Plain Tiles, and the Hips with Ridge..Tiles. 1828Hutton Course Math. II. 87 When the angle bends inwards, it is called a valley; but when outwards, it is called a hip. 1887Homœop. World 1 Nov. 511 The ridges, hips, and finials are of terra cotta.
b. A spandrel: see quot.
1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 55/2 The vacuities..left between the back.. of the Arch, and the upright of the Wall it is turn'd from, call'd by Workmen, the Hips of the Arch.
4. attrib. and Comb.
a. attrib. Reaching up to the hips, esp. as hip-boot. (See also hip-bath in b.)
1883Pall Mall G. 6 Apr. 7/1 Two indiarubber hip fishing stockings. 1893Outing (U.S.) XXII. 124/2 Gossamer hip-boots are good if of reliable stock. 1922S. Lewis Babbitt x. 138 He gloated on fly-rods and gorgeous rubber hip-boots. 1969Sears Catal. Spring/Summer 709 Ted Williams hip boots have nylon added to latex for long-lasting strength and comfort.
b. Comb. in sense 1, as hip-ache, hip-deep, hip-swaying, hip-swinging adjs.; hip-bath, a bath in which a person can sit immersed up to the hips; hip-belt, antiquary's name for a belt worn diagonally about the left hip and the right side of the waist, a part of mediæval armour; hip-disease, a disease of the hip-joint, characterized by inflammation, fungous growth, and caries of the bones; † hip-evil = hip-disease; hip-flask, a flask for intoxicating liquor carried in a hip-pocket; † hip-halt a., lame in the hip, limping; † hip-hap, a covering for the hips; hip-hole, a hollow dug in the ground to accommodate the hip (for greater comfort when sleeping on hard ground); hip-huggers n. pl., trousers that fit tightly to the hips; also hip-hugger, used attrib. of such trousers; hip-hugging a., fitting closely to the hips; hip-length a., denoting a garment which reaches down to the hips; hip-line, the outline or contour of the hips; hip-lock, in Wrestling, a close grip in which one contestant places a hip or leg in front of the other, and attempts to swing him over this to the ground; hip-pain, pain in the hip-joint, hip-gout; hip-pocket, a pocket in a pair of trousers, just behind the hip; hip-revolver, one carried in the hip-pocket; hip-strap, a strap lying on the horse's hips, and supporting the breeching in a carriage-harness; hip throw, a throw in Judo; hip-yoke, in dressmaking, a shaped piece extending from the waist to the hips, designed to fit the figure closely without gathers. Also hip-bone, etc.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 47 Even the *hip-bath, however, though it mitigates the pain, occasionally does nothing more. 1860Illustr. Lond. News 26 May 503/1 Hip baths and sponge baths, of the best designs.
1874Boutell Arms & Arm. x. 197 From the *hip-belt was suspended, on the left side, the long sword. Ibid. 203 In some few instances, however, the hip-belt appears worn over the taces.
1897Pall Mall Mag. Dec. 507 My carriers..were *hip-deep in the grass.
1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 329 Her right lower limb was wasted and shortened from old *hip-disease.
1782W. Heberden Comm. xxi. (1806) 107 The *hip-evil evidently belongs to the scrofula.
1923E. Marbury My Crystal Ball lxxi. 352 Let these same people frequent ballrooms..and they will find the *hip flasks in evidence and the consequent conditions a sorry spectacle. 1928Sunday Dispatch 2 Sept. 7/1 [American loq.] We have become a people who think ‘likker’, talk it, and lead a hip-flask life! 1944Brahms & Simon Titania has Mother xiii. 145 Merry moujiks drinking from hip flasks and lolling in all directions. 1973D. Lees Rape of Quiet Town ii. 33 A hip-flask full of brandy.
1390Gower Conf. II. 159 Therto he was *hippe-halt. a1600Turn. Tottenham 218 Some come hyp halt, and some trippand.
a1625Fletcher Love's Cure ii. ii, A pox o' this filthy fardingale, this *hip-hape!
1936F. Clune Roaming round Darling xxv. 271 Then we made a fire, boiled the billy, gouged out *hip-holes for ourselves, and camped till daylight. 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai x. 167, I tried digging a hip-hole.
1967Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. (Advt.), Zowie prints and belted *hip-huggers..striped and printed. 1967New Yorker 26 Aug. 82 There are separates, too, such as long jackets, stovepipe hip-hugger trousers, [etc.]. 1973Houston (Texas) Chron. Mag. People, Places, Pleasures 14 Oct. 24/5 Today the young women wear shorts and hip-huggers, the older sit in their traditional long black dresses.
1969Times 7 Nov. 14/1 *Hip-hugging..trousers. 1971B. Malamud Tenants 43 Willie..was dolled up in hip-hugging yellow pants and two-tone brown-and-black shoes.
1921*Hip length [see gum-boots s.v. gum n.2 9]. 1931Daily Express 18 Mar. 5/3 Hip-length coats. 1961Harper's Bazaar Feb. 75 The hip-length cardigan.
1907Westm. Gaz. 30 Mar. 14/1 It [sc. a skirt] blurs over the aggressive *hip-line. 1935Times 2 Dec. 19/4 The coat just reaches the hipline. 1973Country Life 8 Mar. 635/2 Dress in black-and-white-check wool with smooth hipline.
1888Century Mag. July 373/2 The Tartar..caught him around the body, and, with a *hip-lock and a tremendous heave, threw him over his head.
1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Elm, An admirable Remedy for the Sciatica, or *Hip-pain.
1880Cimarron News & Press 22 July 3/2 Lee snatched Armstrong's revolver from his *hip pocket and pointed it at Armstrong. 1887Pall Mall G. 16 July 7/1 Drawing his own six-shooter from his hip-pocket. 1922S. Lewis Babbitt xviii. 228 Drinking together from hip-pocket flasks. 1972Guardian 27 Oct. 12/1 A general election..is one option in Mr Heath's hip pocket list.
1898Doyle Trag. Korosko iv. 109 I've got a little *hip revolver which they have not discovered.
1794W. Felton Carriages (1801) II. Gloss., *Hip Straps, a part of the harness, which lies on the hips of the horse, and buckles to the breeching tugs, which it supports.
1920Glasgow Herald 17 Apr. 6 The Hawaiian corps de ballet..began a..performance of rhythmical *hip-swaying dances.
1965Midnight 12 July 3/1 The *hip-swinging wedding party was celebrated to the strains of the watusi and frug, pounded out by Christopher's group, the Wild Ones. 1966Word Study Oct. 7/1 A hip-swinging, slender-bodied blonde.
1957Takagaki & Sharp Techniques of Judo ii. iv. 50 Generally, when a *hip throw is employed, the opponent turns his back into you and pulls you to the right front corner by your right arm which is pulled tightly across his chest. 1960Oxf. Mail 10 Mar. 8/2 He..went on to win the match with another ankle throw, with which he countered an attempted hip throw.
1931Daily Tel. 21 May 6/4 Small gathers at each side of the *hip yoke in front.
c. Comb. in sense 3, as hip-knob, a knob or ornament surmounting the hip of a roof; hip-mould, -moulding, (a) the mould or templet by which the hip of a roof is set out; (b) the ‘back’ or outer angle of the hip (Chambers Cycl. 1727–41); hip-pole, a pole supporting the hip-rafter; hip-rafter, the rafter extending along the hip of a roof; hip-tile, a tile of special shape used at the hip of a roof; hip-truss, a combination of timbers supporting the hip-rafter. Also hip-roof.
1849Ecclesiologist IX. 71 A barge-board, having a cross, with sunken trefoiled panels for a *hip-knob.
1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 156 Back or *Hip-molding, the backward Hips or Valley-Rafters in the way of an Angle for the back part of a Building.
1782Phil. Trans. LXXII. 367 This *hip-pole was supported, at its proper distance from the *hip-rafter, by an iron-strap, or holdfast.
1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 240 *Hip Tiles, which are used sometimes for..Hips of Rooffs. 1842–76Gwilt Archit. §1836 Ridge roof and hip tiles are formed cylindrically, to cover the ridges of houses.
1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 284/2 The true shape of the *hip-truss.
▪ II. hip, hep, n.2|hɪp, hɛp|
Forms: α. 1 héope, híope, 4–5 hepe, 4–6 heppe, 5 heepe, 7 hepp, 6– hep. β. 5 hipe, 6 hipp, 6–hip.
[OE. héope, híope wk. fem., from same root as OS. hiopo, OHG. hiufo, hiafo, MHG. hiefe wk. masc., thorn-bush, bramble:—OTeut. types *heupôn-, *heupon-. The regular mod. repr. of OE. héope, ME. hēpe, would be hepe or heep; hep and hip appear to be due respectively to ME. and mod.Eng. shortening of (eː).]
The fruit of the wild rose, or of roses in general.
αc725Corpus Gloss. 1858 Sicomoros, heopan. c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 96 Genim brer þe hiopan on weaxaþ. c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 133/36 Butunus, heope. 13..K. Alis. 4983 Hawen, hepen, slon, and rabben. c1350Will. Palerne 1811 Hawes, hepus, & hakernes & þe hasel-notes. c1386Chaucer Sir Thopas 36 Sweete as is the Brembul flour That bereth the rede hepe [v.rr. heepe, heppe, hipe]. 1483Cath. Angl. 183/2 An Heppe, cornum. 1486Bk. St. Albans E v a, Hawys and heeppes and other thyngs ynow. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 119 Let them..take hede that make tartes of Heppes. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. i. (1593) 4 Men themselves..Did live by respis, heps and haws. 1626Bacon Sylva §633 It may bee Heps and Brier-Berries would doe the like. 1648Sanderson Serm. II. 247 Hepps and haws grow in every hedge. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. v. 52 The hep which is the fruit of it [rose]. 1861S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 265 Let us take the rose hep. 1883Century Mag. XXVI. 354 Content to gather the heps and sow the seed.
β14..[see α quot. c1386]. 1581B. Rich Farew. Mil. Prof. D iij, Hippes, Hawes, and Slowes. 1591Spenser M. Hubberd 948 Eating hipps, and drinking watry fome. 1601Holland Pliny I. 361 A red berry like to the hips of an Eglantine. 1711Addison Spect. No. 69 ⁋5 That no Fruit grows Originally among us, besides Hips and Haws, Acorns and Pig-Nuts. 1784Cowper Task i. 120, I fed on scarlet hips and stony haws. 1840Hood Kilmansegg, Courtship xix, Pretty Cis..Who blushes as red as haws and hips. a1861Mrs. Browning De Profundis ix, The little red hip on the tree.
b. Comb., as hep- or hip-berry, hip-bramble, hip-briar, hip-rose, hip-stone, hip-thorn, hip-tree.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 266 Heopbremles leaf. a1387Sinon. Barth. 36 Rosa canina..heppe-brer. c1450Alphita 157 s.v. Rubus, hepebrembel. 1483Cath. Angl. 183/2 An Heppe tre [A. Hepe tre], cornus. 1513Douglas æneis iii. i. 46 Quhar hepthorne buskis on the top grew hie. 1770Waring in Phil. Trans. LXI. 379 Almost as frequent as the common hep-tree. 1797W. Johnson tr. Beckmann's Invent. I. 215 The wax almost resembles the hip-stone. 1829Glover Hist. Derby I. 116 Red dog rose or hep tree.
▪ III. hip, n.3|hɪp|
Also pl. hipps.
[A variant of hyp, abbreviation of hypochondria. The spelling with y is more usual in the n.; but i prevails in the vb. and derivatives.]
Morbid depression of spirits; the ‘blues’.
1710Tatler No. 230 ⁋5 Will Hazzard has got the Hipps, having lost to the Tune of Five Hundr'd Pound. 1725Bailey Erasm. Colloq. (1877) 130 (D.) When he is neither in a passion, nor in the hipps [sollicitus], nor in liquor. 1762C. Johnston Reverie (1763) I. 229 That..sentimental strain gives me the hip. c1800R. Cumberland John de Lancaster (1809) I. 256 You have caught the hip of your hypochondriac wife.
▪ IV. hip, n.4
see hip int.
▪ V. † hip, v.1 Obs. or dial.
Forms: 3–4 huppe, 4 hupe, (pa. tense 3 hupte, 4 hipte), 4–5 hyppe, hippe, 7– hip.
[ME. hüppe, hyppe:—OE. type *hyppan = OHG. *hupfen, MHG. and Ger. hüpfen, Goth. type *huppjan. This word is not found in the early stage of any of the langs.: cf. OE. hoppian, ON. hoppa to hop.]
1. intr. To hop; now north. to hop on one foot.
A bird is said to ‘hop’ on two feet, a man to ‘hip’ on one.
a1250Owl & Night. 1636 Þe nihtegale..hupte uppon on blowe ris. c1300St. Brandan 500 He hipte him amidde the see out of the schip biside. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 1539 Some gas hypand als a ka. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1459 Þe hede hypped aȝayn, were-so-euer hit hitte. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 557 Þat hippe [v.r. huppe] aboute in Engelonde to halwe mennes auteres. c1400Harl. MS. 4196 lf. 93 (Gloss. Hampole's Pr. Consc. 301), It [þe foule] hipped bifore him in þe gate. 1825Brockett, Hip, to hitch or hop on one foot. Hip-step-and-jump, a youthful gambol.
fig.c1570Schort Somme 1st Bk. Discpl. 75 Reideris sal..not hip from place to place.
†2. To walk lame, limp, hobble. Obs.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xxx. (1869) 152 Boistows j am, and haltinge, and wronge. To the birly j go hippinge. c1440Bone Flor. 1993 He came thedur wyth an evyll, Hyppyng on two stavys. c1440Promp. Parv. 241/1 Hyppynge, or haltynge, claudicacio.
3. To pass over, miss, ‘skip’; = overhip. dial.
1804W. Tarras Poems 28 (Jam.) Rather let's ilk daintie sip; An' ev'ry adverse bliffert hip. 1828Craven Dial., Hip, to pass by, to skip over.
▪ VI. hip, v.2
[f. hip n.1]
1. trans. To dislocate or injure the hip of; to lame in the hip. See hipped a.1 3.
1610Markham Masterp. i. xii. 33 If a horse go stiffe, it is a signe either of wrinching, hipping, stifling or foundring either in body or legs.
2. To give a cross-buttock in wrestling; to throw one's adversary over the hip. Cf. hipe.
1675Cotton Scoffer Scoft 70 And a prime Wrestler as e're tript, Ere gave the Cornish Hug, or Hipt.
3. To form with a hip or sloping edge, as a roof. (See also hipped a.1 2.)
1669in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 557 The roofe..to be made after the best manner hipt of. 1776G. Semple Building in Water 13 The front of each Pier is hip'd of. 1851Turner Dom. Archit. I. vii. 346 A very steep tiled roof, hipped all ways.
4. To carry on the hip. U.S.
1818H. C. Knight Lett. from South 93 Some mothers here [sc. in Kentucky] hip their infants, as do the Sumatrans. 1843‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase xx. 191 Still oftener each [log] is hipped and hipping is done by one man..who adroitly whips up the log on his hip.
▪ VII. hip, v.3 colloq.
[f. hip n.3: perh. back-formation from hipped a.2]
trans. To affect with hypochondria; to render low-spirited.
1842Mrs. Browning Grk. Chr. Poets etc. 94 Take courage! I rather would hearten than hip thee! 1843Lefevre Life Trav. Phys. I. i. iii. 62 That my constant attendance upon my patient had hipped me. 1886F. W. Robinson Fair Maid III. iii. iii. 27 The place hips me to death.
▪ VIII. hip, v.4
see hip int.
▪ IX. hip, v.5 slang (orig. U.S.).|hɪp|
[f. hip a.]
trans. To render ‘hip’; to inform. (Freq. as pa. pple. in passive.) Hence hipped ppl. a. well-informed, ‘with it’; (esp. with on) fond of, ‘bitten with’.
1920F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise (1921) ii. iii. 246 I'm hipped on Freud and all that. 1925T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. (1926) II. iii. xv. 191 He is still hipped over this second girl. 1927Daily Express 24 Oct. 8 ‘New York,’ as the manager of one of the largest hotels remarked lately, ‘is badly ‘hipped’ on dining in public.’ 1932Evening Sun (Baltimore) 9 Dec. 31/4 Hip, to give information. 1938Amer. Speech XIII. 314/1 Hipped to the jive, well informed on the latest slang expressions. 1944D. Burley Dan Burley's Orig. Handbk. Harlem Jive 19 Uncle is hipping a whole lot of cats as to what to do when the action gets off the track. 1945L. Shelly Jive Talk Dict. 26 Hipped spade, smart Negro. 1947Esquire Apr. 76 ‘Are there any squares in this outfit?’ ‘No, man, we're all hipped.’ 1954Encounter Feb. 55/1 If I admitted..to being a little bit hipped on the subject of Trotsky, I could sometimes gain an indulgent if flickering attention. 1958J. Kerouac Subterraneans 90 Sand must have hipped him quietly in a whisper somewhere what was happening with the lovers. 1962Spectator 20 Apr. 511 Betjeman is absolutely hipped on his subject. 1973Black World Jan. 64/2, I had just about decided to find some way to hip her to contraceptives.
▪ X. hip, int. (n.4)
Also hep.
1. ‘An exclamation or calling to one; the same as the Latin eho, heus!’ (J.).
1752Ainsworth Lat. Dict. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 34 Perhaps Dr. Hartley..may give me a hip, and call out, ‘Prithee, friend, do not think to slip so easily by me’.
2. An exclamation used (usually repeated thrice) to introduce a united cheer: hence as n.
1827Hone Every-day Bk. 12 To toss off the glass, and huzza after the ‘hip! hip! hip!’ of the toast giver. a1845Hood Sniffing a Birthday xiv, No flummery then from flowery lips, No three times three and hip-hip-hips! 1849Thackeray Pendennis xvi, ‘Here's Mrs. Smirke's good health: hip, hip, hurray!’
Hence hip v.4 intr., to shout ‘hip’; trans., to greet with ‘hip’. Also hip-(hip-)hurrah v.
1818Moore Mem. (1853) II. 157 They hipped and hurraed me. 1832Examiner 609/2 One set of men ‘hip hurrah’ and rattle decanter stoppers. 1871Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. I. 116 In the course of the installation dinner, at some high point of the hep-hep hurrahing.
▪ XI. hip, a. slang (orig. U.S.).|hɪp|
[Origin unknown.]
= hep a. Hence ˈhip-cat = hep-cat; ˈhipness, the condition or quality of being ‘hip’.
1904G. V. Hobart Jim Hickey i. 15 At this rate it'll take about 629 shows to get us to Jersey City, are you hip? 1926Detective Fiction Weekly 16 Jan. 640/2, I sashayed for a legger an' run into a rube hip agent with a bottle and some jake which helped some. 1938C. Calloway Hi De Ho 16 Hip, wise, sophisticated, anyone with boots on. 1944C. Himes Black on Black (1973) 199 I'm a hipcat from way back. 1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues xii. 226 Their hipness..bubbled up out of the brute scramble and sweat of living. 1951San Diego Even. Tribune 28 June a–2/5 We did it because we thought it was ‘hip’ or smart. 1958W. Bryant Jive in Hi-Fi 13 The correct word is ‘hip’. It comes from a story of a fisherman warning young fishermen never to wade in deep water without hip boots on because they could run into trouble. So, when you hear the words, ‘I'm hip’ or ‘I'm booted’ it's said to let you know they have no fear of trouble or that they understand what's shaking [i.e., happening].
1957J. Kerouac On Road (1958) 10 Elmer Hassel, with that hip sneer. 1959Spectator 31 July 134/2 He has a fast line of jive-patter and uses such hip endearments as ‘angel-cake’ and ‘gorgeous’. Ibid. 7 Aug. 161/2 Audiences there are hip to the latest gossip. 1959C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 164 It was like getting a hip cat into a symphony concert, but I succeeded. 1959Observer 4 Oct. 9/7 The only really hip Labour candidate. 1961New Left Rev. May-June 47/1 The goofs of the second act did a lot to dispel the hipness of the first. 1961Listener 9 Nov. 786/1 As Norman Mailer would say, it's ‘hip’ to use obscure terms and meaningless symbols. 1966H. S. Thompson Hell's Angels (1967) 68 Frank was so completely hip that he went down to Hollywood and bought the blue-and-yellow striped sweatshirt that Lee Marvin wore in The Wild One. 1971Black Scholar Jan. 22/2 As Cannonball Adderly has said ‘Hipness is not a state of mind. It is a fact of life.’ 1972V. Ferdinand in A. Chapman New Black Voices 472 We sometimes..go in for that kind of living thinking it's hip. |