hipn.1
/hɪp/, U.S. /hɪp/ 1.
a.
(a) A prominence between the waist and the thigh on each side of the human body, formed by the lateral projection of the pelvis; the hip joint; a hip bone; (also) the external shape formed by this prominence and the flesh covering it (usually in plural). Also: the equivalent part of a quadruped.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > side > [noun] > hip
hipOE
haunch?c1225
sciaa1400
quarterc1425
hucklea1529
hetchill1601
huck1788
the world > life > the body > structural parts > joint > joints > [noun] > of hip
hipOE
coxec1400
sciatical?a1425
sciatic?1541
hip joint1615
ishies1653
coxa1706
OE Blickling Homilies 11 Salomones reste wæs mid weardum ymbseted..& anra gehwylc hæfde sweord ofor [read ofer] his hype.
OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 100 Clunes, hypas.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 205 & sech hu feole þe grimme wrestlere of helle braid upon his hupe.
c1330 Simonie (Auch.) (1991) l. 134 A litel lettre In a box vpon his hepe.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxiv. 3 Putt þi honde vnder my hype [a1425 Corpus Oxf. hip; L. femur].
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 472 A foot mantel aboute hir hypes [c1405 Ellesmere hipes, c1410 Harl. 7334 hupes, c1415 Lansd. hippes, c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 hepis] large.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) x. 267 Wounded hym sore vpon his hippe.
1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. iv. vii. i. f. clvi I wyll declare some perticuler remedyes, for the curation of vlcers of the hippes and legges.
1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. f. 88v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe If a horse halte behynd the griefe must eyther be in the hyppe, in the stiffle, in the houghe [etc.].
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions vi. 49 Daunsing..strengtheneth weake hippes, fainting legges.
1614 T. Freeman Rubbe & Great Cast sig. C Think'st thou Wat I can cure the curelesse goute? Can Iames Scyatticke hips hope helpe of mee?
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis xxi. 233 They were lame, and their Hyps contracted and crampt.
1705 in London Gaz. No. 4163/4 A..Mare..burnt-marked on the near Hip with H.
1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty x. 60 To be held fast to the out-side of the hip.
1833 J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor 83 He was..remarkably broad in the chest, with large hips and spider legs.
1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 110 Her hands lightly resting on her hips.
1923 J. Mahoney in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1923 (1924) 142 One chalky hand rested with fingers wide-spread upon her uncorseted hip, and the other caressed at her waist.
1989 Equinox Jan. 45/2 Her Samoyed had arthritic hips.
1995 M. M. Gillan Where I come From 97 ‘I know I'm too fat,’ she says, ‘but I hate exercise. My mother says I have childbearing hips.’
2013 Baltimore Sun 2 June (Scene section) 2/3 The garment zipped along the side, but a gap left a strip of hip and a pink underwear band exposed.
(b) In plural or attributive. The circumference of the body or the pelvis at the level of the hip bones; a measurement of this. to have hips: (chiefly of a woman) to have wide or curvy hips; similarly to have no hips (and variants): to have slim hips; not to curve outward at the hips.
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1877 Boston Post 3 Apr. A lad not quite 18 years old, whose breast measured 58 inches, waist 60 inches, and hips 72 inches.
1880 Myra's Jrnl. Dress & Needlework Feb. 85/1 Send them the exact size of your waist measured without corsets, and send also hip measurement.
1931 G. S. Kaufman & M. Ryskind Of Thee I Sing in K. C. Cordell & W. H. Cordell Pulitzer Prize Plays 1918–1934 (1935) 711/1 Ruby lips and a foot so small; as for hips—she has none at all!
1949 G. Winston Let. 4 Mar. in J. V. Haggard Manuf. Clothing, 1945–53 (1956) v. 126 Relationship between breast and hip circumference of white WACS.
1978 Austral. Women's Weekly 11 Jan. 30/1 I once used to have difficulty buying one-piece dresses for my 100cm bust and 90cm hips.
1991 Toronto Star (Nexis) 14 Nov. b3 You can tell she's not obsessed with being thin... She's got hips and a bust and she looks great.
2014 E. A. Gribbin in M. Faust & S. Carrier Designing Apparel for Consumers 8 Hour glass... Bust and hips are basically the same circumference—though the bust can be up to 1″ larger than the hips.
b. Each of a pair of shaped frames or pads worn on either side of the body under a woman's dress, skirt, or petticoat, in order to accentuate the hips. Usually in plural. historical after early 18th cent.Cf. pannier n.1 5, hoop n.1 6. See also earlier hip-cushion n. at Compounds 5a.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > hip
hip1705
yoke1849
yoke piece1868
yoke back1876
hip yoke1878
1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy i. 11 I furnish'd her Two Years ago with Three Pair of Hips, and am not paid for 'em yet.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 245. ⁋2 [She] carried off the following Goods..Two Pair of Hips of the newest Fashion.
1806 Morning Post 9 Sept. The bosom was displayed, and at that period false hips were not known, nor hoops, as they were afterwards.
1859 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Feb. 315/1 An instrument or appendage called ‘a pair of hips’, was..the predecessor and also contemporary of the hoop.
1906 M. B. Synge Short Hist. Social Life in Eng. 261 False hips in 1709 soon gave way to a hoop or mild compressible whalebone frame-work under the skirt or petticoat.
1983 Museum Notes Oct. 16/1 Underskirts of linen-covered whalebone ellipses which supported the wide hips or panniers.
2016 M. D. Doering in J. F. Blanco & M. D. Doering Clothing & Fashion I. 220/1 Side hoops, or false hips, were a variant of the oblong hoop petticoat that were worn as an alternative.
c. Zoology. In an insect or other arthropod: the segment of a leg that is closest to the body; = coxa n. 2. Now rare.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] > member of > parts of > leg > first or basal joint of
hip1817
haunch1828
1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xxiii. 307 The legs of all seem to consist of the same general parts; the hip, trochanter, thigh, shank, and foot.
1840 J. Duncan Introd. Entomol. (Naturalist's Libr.: Entomol. I) 117 The joint which unites the leg with the body is the coxa or hip, which is received into an acetabulum or socket.
1855 A. Fitch 3rd Rep. Noxious & Other Insects N.Y. 384 Its anterior shanks are black in front and the thighs and hips orange yellow.
a1942 E. Sandars Insect Bk. for Pocket (1946) 110 There is an extra segment between the hip and the thigh.
1974 M. Rockstein Physiol. Insecta (ed. 2) III. 403 The point where the edge of the hip bends to form the lateral coxal appendage.
2. Architecture and Building.† b. The space formed between one side of the outer curve of an arch, a wall, and the ceiling or framework; a spandrel. Obsolete. rare.
a. A sharp inclined edge on a roof, extending from the ridge or apex to the eaves and having a sloping plane on each side. Also: the rafter at this edge, the hip-rafter. Frequently attributive (see Compounds 5b).Recorded earliest in hip tile n. at Compounds 5b.See also hip roof n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > projecting inclined edge
hip1363
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > roof-beam > rafter > others
hip1363
hip rafter1663
knee-rafter1679
sleeper1688
valley-piece1823
valley-rafter1823
binding-rafter1842
subprincipal1842
1363 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1952) 231 (MED) Crestes voc' hypetyl.
1663 W. Pope Of Roofs in G. Richards tr. A. Palladio 1st Bk. Archit. xlix. 222 The length of the Hip, and the Angle which it maketh upon the Diagonal line..is shewed by the prick line.
1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 901 The Bricklayer sometimes will require to have running measure for Hyps and Valleys.
1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 4 Here at London, the Vallies are commonly Tiled with Plain Tiles, and the Hips with Ridge..Tiles.
1792 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 374 The upper plate of lead which served as a capping to the junction of the hip with the ridge of the roof.
1828 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) II. 87 When the angle bends inwards, it is called a valley; but when outwards, it is called a hip.
1886 Homœopathic World July 320 The ridges, hips, and finials are of terra-cotta.
1954 Caribbean Q. 3 190 Square-hipped roofs, small gable vents at the ridge of a hip.
1965 I. H. Seeley Building Quantities Explained iii. 31 (caption) Roof plan. Lengths of hips and valleys.
2004 P. Hymers New Home Builder vii. 155 With interlocking tiles the hips are usually covered with the same half-round or angles that run along the ridge.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > parts of
coin1350
pendant1359
voussoir1359
springer1435
spandrel1477
spring?1553
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pin1928
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture 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 [It. le Coscie delle Volte].
1874 J. H. Pollen Descr. Archit. & Monumental Sculpt. S. Kensington Mus. 16 This doorway is framed in a square panel, the sides formed by piers or buttresses topped by pinnacles, and the intervening spandrils on the hips of the arch diapered in diamond-shaped divisions.
3. A curved projection or prominence on a hillside or mountainside.
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1806 Scots Mag. Sept. 696 Drauntin' gomrals—in a swarm, Oure the hip of Whigray's hill.
1810 R. H. Cromek Remains 51 Round the hip o' the hill comes the sweet Psalm tune.
1873 Contrib. Old Residents' Hist. Assoc. Lowell, Mass. 1 297 The valley is distinctly seen from Lowell; and through it, yet upon the hip of the mountain, the road from Lowell to Peterboro' passes.
1919 Collier's 25 Jan. 8/3 It lay in a hollow against the hip of the mountain.
2007 J. Adamowicz New Hiking Monadnock Region 14 Monadnock State Park in Jaffrey..comprises more than 5,000 acres, with the Park Headquarters located on the southeast hip of the mountain.
Phrases
P1. on also upon the hip: at a disadvantage; in a position in which one is likely to be overthrown or overcome. Esp. in to have (formerly also †get, †take) a person on also upon the hip: to put a person in a compromised position or in one in which he or she is likely to be overcome. Now somewhat rare.Apparently with allusion to the practice in wrestling of hoisting one's opponent on to the hip before throwing him or her to the ground; cf. hip throw n. at Compounds 5a.Originally and sometimes later as part of an extended metaphor.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > disadvantageously [phrase] > to the disadvantage of > at a disadvantage
on also upon the hip?c1225
on a lock1598
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 205 He..sech hu feole þe grimme wrestlere of helle braid upon his hupe & weorp wið þe hanche turn into galnes se þe rixleð iþe lenden.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 1781 (MED) Beryn he had I-cauȝte Somwhat oppon the hipp, þat Beryn had þe wers.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. i. 11 If these..be but taken vpon the hip, they fall to quaking, they crye out vnto heauen.
1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xlvi. cxvii. 403 To get the Pagan on the hippe: And hauing caught him right, he doth him lift, By nimble sleight.
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) x. lix. 262 When Dauid seem'd, in common Sence, already on the hip.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 331 Now infidell I haue you on the hip . View more context for this quotation
1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 169 Sometimes the Christian hath his enemy on the hip, yea, on the ground.
1715 C. Bullock Woman's Revenge iii. 59 Ah, Heaven bethank'd, but now Rogue I think I have you upon the Hip.
1778 C. Dibdin Poor Vulcan ii. i. 26 We have each other on the hip, Be jealous then no longer.
1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 21 Oct. 198 I have these fellows on the hip; and, brave sport will I have with them before I have done.
1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate II. vi. 156 Feeling that she had the culprit on the hip.
1910 U. Sinclair Let. 28 Oct. in E. V. Debs Lett. (1990) I. 384 The Otis gang have us on the hip and are in absolute control of the situation.
1967 Listener 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.
1989 S. Terkel in J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath Introd. p. xiv Though he was already a success, self-doubt had him on the hip.
P2. hip and thigh: unsparingly, ruthlessly; completely, utterly. Originally and chiefly in to smite hip and thigh: to attack without mercy or restraint. Also occasionally attributive: thoroughgoing, uncompromising.With allusion to Judges 15:8 (see quot. 1560). In earlier versions of the Bible the phrase is rendered differently: Coverdale (1535) uses ‘shoulder and loins’ (following Luther), while the Great Bible (1539) has ‘leg and thigh’. [After Hebrew šōq ʿal-yārēḵ (in the passage translated in quot. 1560; < šōq (in humans) lower leg, calf, (in sacrificial animals) upper leg, thigh + ʿal upon + yārēḵ body, loins, side, thigh). The semantic motivation of the phrase is uncertain and disputed.]
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > violently [phrase]
of hardc1330
at (the) utterance1480
hip and thigh1560
with a vengeance1568
with a powderc1600
with a siserary1607
full fling1614
with the vengeance1693
like a thousand (also hundred) of brick(s)1836
1560 Bible (Geneva) Judges xv. 8 He smote them hippe and thigh with a mighty plague.
1608 T. Tuke Treasure of True Loue iii. iv. sig. R4 It is a prudent and godly crueltie to kill them all, head and tayle, damme and cubb, and to smite them hip and thigh with a mightie destruction.
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 115 Destroy all opposition whatsoever, Hip and Thigh..Root and Branch.
1708 Brit. Apollo 14–16 July Your Adversary I, Will with Iambicks smite You Hip and Thigh.
1781 Weekly Misc. 10 Dec. 262 I'm surrounded by a throng, Who tear me hip and thigh.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Dream Fair Women lxvii, in Poems (new ed.) 139 Moreover it is written that my race Hewed Ammon, hip and thigh, from Aroer On Arnon unto Minneth.
1832 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 47 502 A hip-and-thigh reformer..has replied to Lord Nugent.
1857 New Monthly Mag. Feb. 145 The Roman Catholics are naturally proud of their own ‘Reformer’, and somewhat prone to pit him against the more dogmatical, hip-and-thigh cut-and-thrust ultras, as they account them, of the Protestant Reformation.
1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators I. 255 To smite the heathen hip-and-thigh with the edge of the sword.
1908 R. A. Barr Brit. Rugby Team in Maoriland 75 They have a prevailing wind at Greymouth called ‘The Barber’, which..smites the inhabitants hip and thigh.
1970 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 21 Aug. 6/1 Those who plainly see the national danger and are important enough to do something about it, are smote hip and thigh by smear tactics.
2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Apr. 10/2 (advt.) David Hart smites hip and thigh the peddlers of a ‘new atheism’ that recycles hoary arguments from the past.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > carry on or institute (an action) [verb (transitive)] > sue or institute action against
pleada1325
implead1387
follow1389
pursue1454
process1493
to put in suit1495
to call (a person) unto the law?a1513
sue1526
suit1560
prosecute1579
to fetch a person over the hips1587
trounce1638
law1647
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action1734
to fetch law of1832
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run1891
1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 89/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II 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.
1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 214 Could anie of you take it well at your neighbours hand, should he..fetch you ouer the hip vpon a branch of some blinde, vncouth, and pretermitted Statute?
P4. down in the hip and variants: (of a horse) having a fracture of the anterior spine of the ilium (which makes the point of the affected hip appear to be lower than that of the normal hip); = hip-down n. and adj. (a) at Compounds 5a. Now rare.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective]
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Novemberish1793
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die-away1802
blue-devilish1804
blue-devilled1807
malagrugrous1818
down in the hip1826
yonderly1828
sunshineless1831
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in a (or the) trough1856
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doomy1961
bummed1970
the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > disorders of legs > other disorders of legs
syrmatic1748
grogged1796
down in the hip1826
groggy1828
gammy1830
capped1831
overshot1881
1826 Sydney Gaz. 8 Apr. (advt.) Lost..a Bright Bay..down in the right hip, black mane, switch tail, small star on the forehead.
1846 Sporting Mag. Aug. 110 If, therefore, I sold a horse down in one hip without mentioning the circumstance,..I should, if requested to do so, certainly hold myself bound in honour to take him back.
1874 W. Watson Youatt's Horse (rev. ed.) xvii. 382 The horse is then said to be down in the hip.
1905 Breeder's Gaz. 25 Jan. 162/2 She may be down in one hip, yet produce a perfectly balanced foal.
1940 Sporting Globe (Melbourne) 24 Jan. 5/5 ‘Monty’ is down in the right hip..and the reverse way of galloping at Warmambool enables him to pivot on the weak hip around the sharp corners of the course.
P5. to shoot from the hip: see shoot v. Additions.
P6. joined at the hip: see joined adj.1 Additions.
Compounds
C1. General attributive in sense 1a (chiefly with reference to the hip joint).Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated at Compounds 5a.See also hip bone n., hip girdle n., hip-gout n., hip joint n., etc.
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OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 52 Sciascis, hypwerc.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 23 Þe schuldre boones & þe hipe boones_[?a1450 BL Add. hepe bonys].
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xx. 84 Both the gout and the hippe ache do oftimes come of to much & to sore walking.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 734 All that by the ancients is called the Foote which reacheth from the hip ioynt euen to the end of the Toes.
1701 J. Harvey Scelera Aquarum 18 Lumbago, that is to say, Hip-Gout.
1807 G. Gregory Dict. Arts & Sci. II. 742/1 In the fourth kind of hip-dislocation (over the ischiatic notch) the length of the limb is not interfered with.
1829 I. Nichols Catech. Nat. Theol. 88 We see why the hip socket should be made deep to prevent the bone from thrusting by.
1844 B. R. Haydon Lect. Painting & Design iv. 176 Suppose we find..that all the hip muscles were flat.
1884 Dublin Jrnl. Med. Sci. 77 497 A. M., aged twenty years, was affected for about a year with a chronic hip arthritis.
1918 J. Sully My Life & Friends iv. 95 A Prussian officer..executed the spasmodic hip-bend.
1949 G. Shurr & R. D. Yocom Mod. Dance 190 Impulse, the impetus or impelling force used to initiate a movement sequence, such as a hip contraction or a hip release.
1962 R. H. Smythe Anat. Dog Breeding 159 Hip dysplasia does not seem to be a particularly painful condition.
1992 Texas Monthly Jan. 149 Osteoporosis can result in the dowager's hump and dangerous hip fractures.
2017 Church Times 24 Mar. 18/4 Even when she had had hip surgery and knee replacement, I had considered them merely tune-ups to return her to full mobility.
C2. Locative, forming adjectives and adverbs, as hip-deep, hip-high.
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1773 Morning Chron. 4 Mar. Suppose an iron ballustrade, handsomely bowed, was annexed, hip high.
1799 S. Murray Descr. Part Scotl. xi. in Compan. Scotl., Lakes & Craven 193 I was placed upon a shelty, which was led through the Gauer river by an Highland-man, hip deep.
1864 Leeds Intelligencer 5 Nov. 3/4 They are hip high in vegetable rankness and ruin.
1897 Pall Mall Mag. Dec. 507 My carriers..were hip-deep in the grass.
1913 E. Rath Exercises on Apparatus 3 Executed like in standing..with hands grasping the apparatus hip high.
1951 Mt. Vernon (Illinois) Register-News 3 Mar. 1/7 Hip-deep snow covered areas in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa.
1993 J. E. Walsh Shadows Rise 1 Inside.., was a rude, hip-high counter backed by a row of shelves.
2006 Up Here (Yellowknife, N.W. Territories) July 28/2 Most of our progress is made in lining the canoes through the whitewater, hip-deep in frothing glacier-melt.
C3. attributive. Designating (esp. waterproof) footwear or clothing that reaches up to the hips, esp. in hip boot, hip wader.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > reaching to hip or thigh
thigh-boot1841
hip boot1853
1853 Argus (Melbourne) 18 June (advt.) For sale..200 pairs heavy Boots, suitable to the season, comprising—Nailed bluchers Hip boots.
1874 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Apr. 10/2 All dressed in slate-coloured shooting coats with green facings, hip gaiters of buff leather, and Tyrolese hats.
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Apr. 7/1 Two indiarubber hip fishing stockings.
1904 Mountain Sun (Kerrville, Texas) 5 Nov. Men wear hip waders, and women must swim.
1922 S. Lewis Babbitt x. 138 He gloated on fly-rods and gorgeous rubber hip-boots.
1979 Carillon (Steinbach, Manitoba) 19 Sept. ii. 2/2 I discovered hip waders do little good when the person wearing the hip waders falls into the water up to his armpits.
2017 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 31 Jan. c5 A causeway was built, connecting the island to the mainland and letting pilgrims come and go without hip boots.
C4.
a. Objective with verbal nouns and participles, forming compounds relating to the movement of a person's hips, as hip-thrusting, hip-wiggling, etc.Also in extended use with reference to music to which one might move one's hips in the way specified.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.
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1920 Writer's Monthly (U.S.) June 424 Producers were beginning to tire of stories written around curly-haired flappers..and eye-rolling, hip-wiggling damsels.
1935 Billboard 25 May 16/3 She also adds a bit of hip-tossing and torso-heaving in her first number.
1974 Jrnl. Mammalogy 55 343 The male [squirrel] then mounted and initiated hip-thrusting movements.
1989 Hippocrates Nov. 17/2 A rock concert's foot-stomping, hip-grinding sounds are about one million times louder than a dinner table conversation.
1991 Details Dec. 80/3 Dancing for the mobster, she did a lot of sashaying and hip twitching.
2014 Church Times 25 Apr. 18/1 I have fleeting thoughts of coarse sailors and hip-cocking barmaids.
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hip-shaking n. and adj.
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1915 Jrnl. Sci. Physical Training 7 50 Exercises in aiding the recovery of normal muscular strength and general fitness... 6. lax stoop kneeling (head on bed), hip shaking.
1934 Chicago Defender 1 Sept. 6/6 The then not free people enjoyed the hip-shaking, foot-stomping, high jumping release of their emotions.
1993 Washington Post 30 Sept. b4/4 With little hip shaking or muscle flexing, Cyrus made a point of coming on like Roy Orbison.
2005 D. Elish Nine Wives 101 Henry had to change character again—this time into a finger-pointing, hip-shaking John Travolta clone.
hip-swaying adj. and n.
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1914 V. Tracy Persons Unknown iii. xi. 337 Standing thus, full-costumed, with a hip-swaying swagger.
1920 Glasgow Herald 17 Apr. 6 The Hawaiian corps de ballet..began a..performance of rhythmical hip-swaying dances.
1980 V. Tausie Art in New Pacific ii. 24 The hip-swaying of Tahiti and the Cook Islands..now has considerable influence, even on Micronesian dancing.
2015 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 14 Feb. The finale's Perpetuum Mobile was also a blast, conducted with a hip-swaying verve that almost disguised its immense technical pitfalls.
hip-swinging adj. and n.
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1916 Wyalong (New S. Wales) Advocate 8 July The imitation of horse-back riding, swimming, sailor pulling, double hip swinging motion or a peristaltic twist motion are most excellent for the bowels.
1938 Frederick (Maryland) Post 17 June 5/2 Eleanor Powell is going tropical too, and in ‘Honolulu’ she will do some hip-swinging in a grass skirt.
1966 Word Study Oct. 7/1 A hip-swinging, slender-bodied blonde.
1992 S. McClary G. Bizet Carmen vi. 112 The hip-swinging of exotic dance.
2016 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 21 Oct. l. 1 There was no magic, no spontaneous transformation into a hip-swinging, cocksure Ryan Gosling.
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a. (In sense 1a.)† hip-evil n. Obsolete rare tuberculosis affecting the hip; = hip disease n. (b).† hip hape n. Obsolete clothing or an accessory used to cover, alter, or accentuate the shape of the hips.Apparently an isolated use. [ < hip n.1 + a second element of uncertain identity; perhaps compare hap n.2] † hip stone n. Mineralogy Obsolete nephrite (the more common form of jade); a piece of this; see nephritic stone n. at nephritic n. and adj.1 Compounds.Nephrite was previously thought to be efficacious in treating kidney disease, which often presents as pain in the hip region. [Often in translations of foreign-language expressions with an element meaning ‘nephritic’ or (more immediately) ‘kidney’.]
hip bath n. (a) (now chiefly historical) a small (often portable) bathtub in which a person sits, rather than lies down, and is immersed only up to the hips; = sitz bath n. 1; (b) a bath taken in a bathtub of this type; = sitz bath n. 2; (more generally) any shallow bath, esp. when taken for medical reasons.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > vessel for bathing in > types of
furo1615
semicupium1634
bidet1766
hip bath1806
slipper-bath1829
sitz bath1842
saucer bath1860
Roman tub1911
ofuro1934
bathinette1936
Jacuzzi1966
hot tub1973
plunge pool1973
1806 C. R. Pemberton Pract. Treat. Dis. Abdominal Viscera vi. 89 The patient should sit in warm water in (what is termed) a hip bath.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 57 Even the hip-bath, however, though it mitigates the pain, occasionally does nothing more.
1991 Times 28 Sept. (Review section) 32/4 The dressing-room next to the upper drawing-room has a Victorian theme, complete with hip bath, water cans and washstand.
2002 J. L. Longe Gale Encycl. Nursing & Allied Health II. 1339/1 A sitz bath, or hip bath, can be taken at home to treat hemorrhoids and promote healing of an episiotomy.
hip belt n. a belt worn around the hips; spec. (a) one worn as part of a medieval suit of armour, and used to support a sword or other weapon (historical); (b) a belt on a backpack, etc., that fastens around the hips and is designed to help distribute weight from the shoulders to the hips (cf. hip strap n. (b)).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > body armour > [noun] > belts
hip belt1847
trussing-bolster1910
1847 C. Boutell Monumental Brasses 28 Sustained by a hip-belt exhibiting a peculiar arrangement of straps, the long strait sword..hangs on the left front of the figure.
1875 Trewman's Exeter Flying Post 13 Oct. 3/4 Hip-belts became too common for the smallest Paris work-girl to wear. Only low Boulevardières and English ladies wear them now.
1914 Evening Independent (Massillon, Ohio) 12 Nov. 6/3 The coat itself is a severely simple style cut away at the front to show a hip-belt of navy blue bengaline.
1970 Times (San Mateo, Calif.) 17 Feb. (Sears Suppl.) (advt.) Aluminum-frame lightweight packbag... Frame and hip belt..25.50.
a1974 G. Heyer My Lord John (1977) i. v. 87 A magnificent hip-belt was also promised; and the bascinet was to be fitted with an orle, for the better support of the great tilting-helm.
2003 New Yorker 24 Nov. 87/3 He'd shown Lynn how to position the hip belt, tighten the shoulder straps, and adjust the top tensioners.
hip bump n. originally U.S. (a) an injury caused by a blow to the hip; (b) an act or instance of a person's hip (intentionally) bumping something else, esp. another person's hip as part of a dance, as a gesture of celebration, etc.
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1905 Albion (Indiana) New Era 22 Nov. McPheeters was found with a lame back, Perry Coe with a narrow escape from a broken neck, and Geo. Minard with a bad case of hip-bump.
1959 C. M. Wilson Magnificent Scufflers 13 Champion off-balances Challenger, breaks his starting hold, swings in quickly with a right Hip Bump.
1968 Newark (Ohio) Advocate 30 Nov. 2/1 Houck..sustained a hip bump, leg bruise and skinned finger.
1975 Washington Post 1 Mar. e1/6 An authentic Bus Stop Bump... A smooth hip bump followed by a bending knee bump, arms swinging.
2015 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 24 July (Sports section) 3 The pair exchanged high fives and hip bumps with each point won.
hip check n. originally and chiefly Ice Hockey an act of obstructing or hitting an opponent using one's hip; also in extended use.
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1927 Manitoba Free Press 24 Jan. 12/1 Art dodged and gave Goheen a stiff hip check. Down went Goheen like a log on his face.
1999 N.Y. Times 24 Dec. d3/4 The best hit of the [hockey] game..was a hip check thrown by Jamie Rivers of the Islanders against Eric Lacroix, which flipped the Ranger up and over and down on the ice.
2003 P. D. Leavey Deep End Gang viii. 53 I retrieved two cans of pop, giving the door of the fridge a hip check to shut it.
hip-check v. originally and chiefly Ice Hockey transitive to obstruct or hit (an opponent) using one's hip (also intransitive); also in extended use.
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1932 R. H. Barbour Skate, Glendale! xx. 195 And can he hip-check 'em into the boards? Wow!
1987 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 17 Nov. I could really hip-check and the fans loved that, though I never got a whole lot of penalties.
2015 Bon Appétit Sept. 98/2 He impatiently hip-checks a chef out of the way in order to demonstrate how a dish should be prepared.
hip checking n. originally and chiefly Ice Hockey the action or practice of obstructing or hitting an opponent using one's hip.
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1932 N.Y. Times 5 Mar. 18/4 Shields was sent off for hip-checking.
1977 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 30 Dec. There was more body-checking back then, more hip-checking, even at centre ice.
2013 Denver Post (Nexis) 14 July 2 b The rollergirls said a little road rash is nothing compared to the hip checking and face planting they do in their bouts.
hip-cushion n. now historical either of a pair of stuffed pads worn on either side of the body under a woman's skirt, dress, or petticoat, to cover and accentuate the hips; chiefly in plural; (also) a similar accessory, formed in one piece and fastening around the waist (cf. bum roll n. at bum n.1 and int.2 Compounds 2).
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1698 R. Gould Satyr against Wooing 23 The scatter'd Pieces of her artfull Frame..Lie strew'd around... Hip-Cushions, Plumpers, Massy Pads for Stays.
1898 M. Schild Old Eng. Peasant Costumes 141 The vertugadin [sc. farthingale] almost disappeared, and the hip cushion was substituted by the tucked-up skirt.
?1928 A. K. Dallas tr. C. Köhler & E. von Sichart Hist. of Costume 320 The slimness at the waist attained by wearing the corset was rendered still more striking by the reappearance at the same time of hip-cushions (postiches).
1997 N. Hills tr. M. Thesander Feminine Ideal 40 Pocket panniers..were worn for everyday wear. These consisted of two drum-shaped hip-cushions tied at the waist and hips.
hip disease n. disease or pain in the hip; an instance of this; (in early use) spec. †(a) sciatica (obsolete); †(b) tuberculosis affecting the hip (obsolete).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [noun] > of hip joint
hip disease1684
hip-joint disease1794
hip-evil1802
coxalgy1854
coxalgia1859
coxitis1878
Trendelenburg's sign1912
Perthes' disease1915
sacro-iliitis1934
Ortolani1955
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician ix. ix. 340/2 Every pain in the Ischion, may be called the Hip Disease, or Sciatica.
1794 E. Ford Observ. Dis. Hip Joint ii. 59 I have found this plaster..useful as a topical remedy, in some scrophulous affections; but in the hip disease, it has not hitherto answered my expectations.
1825 Examiner 24 July 466/2 Sir Walter [Scott] is exceedingly lame. The lameness, we should think, by his manner of walking, proceeds from a hip-disease.
1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 329 Her right lower limb was wasted and shortened from old hip-disease.
1930 H. Bailey Demonstr. Physical Signs Clin. Surg. (ed. 2) xxi. 214 Trendelenburg's test is not diagnostic of congenital hip disease.
2016 Las Cruces (New Mexico) Sun-News (Nexis) 5 Feb. If nothing is done, the patient will run and play again but will eventually develop severe osteoarthritis and secondary hip disease.
hip-down n. and adj. now rare (a) n. the condition (in a horse) of having the point of one hip appearing lower than that of the other, resulting from fracture of the anterior spine of the ilium; (b) adj. (of a horse) having this condition; = down in the hip at Phrases 4, hip-shot adj. 1.
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1866 W. Walker Youatt's Horse (rev. ed.) xxi. 449 It [sc. the bone] assumes a different position, producing various degrees of deformity, and constitutes what is termed ‘hip down’.
1886 G. Fleming Pract. Horse Keeper 240 A horse with a broken point of the hip is called ‘hip-down’.
1925 J. Fairfax-Blakeborough Malton Memories xii. 294 Hip down or not Hambletonian beat Mr. Cookson's Diamond over the Beacon Course at Newmarket.
1963 A. L. Anderson & J. J. Kiser Introd. Animal Sci. xxxvi. 695 A fracture of the prominence of the hip and a falling away in that area is known as ‘hipdown’.
2014 H. Tapper Equine Lore 702/1 Hip Down, when viewed from behind one hip appears to have dropped lower than the other, wasted muscle can be noticed on the lower side.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [noun] > of hip joint
hip disease1684
hip-joint disease1794
hip-evil1802
coxalgy1854
coxalgia1859
coxitis1878
Trendelenburg's sign1912
Perthes' disease1915
sacro-iliitis1934
Ortolani1955
1802 W. Heberden, Jr. tr. W. Heberden Comm. Hist. & Cure Dis. xxi. 107 The hip-evil [L. coxae..exulceratio] evidently belongs to the scrofula.
hip flask n. a slim flask esp. for alcoholic spirits, small enough to be carried in a hip pocket.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > carrying flask > for liquor
pocket pistol1754
hunting-flask1823
tea-canister1859
hip flask1888
1888 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 23 Oct. With the approach of cold weather the richest kind of hip flasks have come into fashion.
1923 E. 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.
1973 D. Lees Rape of Quiet Town ii. 33 A hip-flask full of brandy.
2013 Racing Post 8 Feb. 7/2 Tweedy types eat turkey sandwiches on the tarmac and swig from hip flasks of the previous day's port.
hip flexor n. any of the muscles that carry out flexion at the hip joint (forward movement of the thigh).These muscles include the iliopsoas, pectineus, rectus femoris, and sartorius.
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1901 Lancet 19 Oct. 1035/2 Spasm of the hip flexors is rare.
1992 Future Fitness UK May 63/3 The exercises chosen will activate the hip flexors and may also contribute to lumbar hyperextension.
2012 FourFourTwo Apr. 128/2 Backwards running recruits the hamstrings and glutes in tandem with your quads and hip flexors.
hip-halt adj. rare after Middle English (now archaic and only in historical contexts) (of a person) unable to walk without difficulty as the result of an injury or deformity affecting the hip (see halt adj.); limping, lame.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [adjective] > dislocated > of hip
hip-halta1393
hipped1565
hip-shot1639
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 957 Therto he was hepehalt.
a1475 (a1450) Tournam. of Tottenham (Harl.) (1930) l. 218 Some come hyp-halt, and sum tryppand.
1765 in J. Swift Wks. XIII. 246 Catax, lame, hip-halt.
a1974 G. Heyer My Lord John (1977) iii. v. 268 The King had created this hip-halt, upspring northerner Marshal of England for the term of his life.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > other
sam-cloth1552
hip hapea1640
flap1813
panung1857
a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrrrr2/1 A—O' this filthie vardingale, this hip hape.
hip height n. rare before late 19th cent. the height or level reached by a person's hips; a measurement of this height.
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c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 2613 (MED) I was so hawtayne of herte..I helde nane my hippe heghte vndire heuene ryche.
1880 Eng. Mechanic & World of Sci. 29 Oct. 179/3 Supposing a man to have a hip-height of 0.95m.
1954 Hesperia 24 130 She wears the customary garment of the huntress, held in at the waist by a girdle and forming an overfold at hip height.
2005 H. Mantel Beyond Black ii. 8 The walls were padded to hip height with turquoise plastic leather, deep-buttoned.
hip-hole n. originally Australian a shallow hollow dug in the ground in which to rest the hip bone, in order to make sleeping on one's side on hard or rough ground more comfortable; cf. hipper n.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > made for hip
hipper1867
hip-hole1900
1900 Advertiser (Adelaide) 19 Apr. 5/8 At night friends will probably catch us trying to dig a ‘hip hole’ with a mattress with a spade, or carrying our blankets out into the fowlhouse and camping there.
1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai x. 167 I tried digging a hip-hole.
2008 Telegraph (Nexis) 7 June (Weekend section) 1 Not so long ago, digging a hip-hole was considered to be pretty sophisticated. Today, the more your tent resembles a Moroccan souk, the better.
hip holster n. a holster for a handgun worn at the hip, typically attached to a belt or trouser waistband; also in extended use.
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1887 Boys of Eng. 22 Apr. 206/1 I was..similarly attired, with the exception of the heavy revolver which each wore in his hip holster.
1906 F. H. Spearman Whispering Smith xxxiv. 330 He slipped his revolver from his hip-holster and held the grip of the gun toward her.
1998 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 18 Nov. (Supplement) 16 The CD928 [sc. a mobile phone] also comes with its own hip holster.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 May (Front section) 30/5 Belts with a clasp..were more likely to pop open in a tussle, causing his hip holster to flop around and making it harder for him to draw his gun.
hip-length adj. (esp. of clothing and footwear) that reaches to the hip.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > of specific length
foot-sideOE
sideOE
long-side1575
sidelong1575
nock-shorn1632
talarian1671
three-quarter1713
overknee1831
talaric1853
high water1856
ankle-length1876
long1882
hip-length1893
knee-length1895
thigh-length1895
fingertip1920
mid-calf1931
wrist-length1935
floor-length1939
cropped1954
waltz-length1958
two-thirds1963
calf-length1965
midi1968
1893 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 7 Oct. 7/6 A hip-length jacket, held at the waist by a single huge braid button.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 28 Oct. 20/3 (advt.) Men's pure gum boots, with red soles, hip length $6.95.
1988 ‘E. Lowell’ Fever vii. 91 Her hair was hip-length, thick and very softly curling.
2004 Daily Tel. 20 July 15/4 The shorter, hip-length kaftans are easier to wear than the longer ones, unless you're model-thin and very tall.
hip pad n. (usually in plural) (a) a pad of soft material worn to alter or accentuate the shape of the hip; (b) (chiefly Sport) a protective pad or guard worn over the hip to prevent injury.
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1796 St. James's Chron. 5–7 Jan. Immense breeches, preposterous petticoats, stupendous hip-pads.
1882 Brighton Beach (N.Y.) Daily Music Programme 28 Aug. 2/1 A New York critic says that Mrs. Langtry's form is perfect. That means a bustle, hip pads, patent skirt, tight shoes, stuffed calves, shoulder puffs and small corset.
1900 Outing Nov. 190/2 The hip pad for line-men to be used..during the preliminary practice of falling on the ball, to mitigate the temporary bruises.
1984 Dandy 10 Nov. 13/2 Shoulder pads. Thigh pads, rib pads, hip pads, knee pads, elbow pads, helmet.
2009 M. Ribowsky Supremes xi. 172 Powell inflated the Supremes with padded bras and hip pads.
hip pain n. pain in the hip; (in early use) spec. †sciatica (obsolete).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > pain in specific parts > [noun] > in hip-joint
gutta sciatica1398
boneshavea1400
sciaticaa1400
sciatic?a1425
ischiatica1581
cold gout1584
hip-gout1598
hip pain1655
ischialgia1847
coxalgy1854
coxalgia1859
coccyodynia1872
1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick xvi. ii. 545 The Cure of the Hip-Pain hath many things common with the other sorts of Gouts.
1679 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 3) iv. 36 The Bark [of elm] decocted in common water.., adding a third part of Aqua Vitæ, is a most admirable Remedy for the Ischiadica or Hip-pain.
1745 Boerhaave's Med. Corr. 99 The cough, blood-spitting, fistula, hip-pain, tumours, all require different things.
1911 R. C. Cabot Differential Diagnosis 349 Hip pain, fever, and delirium are the presenting symptoms.
2016 Cairns (Austral.) Post (Nexis) 19 Nov. 56 The 57-year-old walked off the course and announced his immediate retirement with chronic hip pain.
hip pointer n. Sport (chiefly North American) an injury in which the most prominent point of the hip bone is deeply bruised and painful.
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1935 Bakersfield Californian 23 Oct. 10/7 Maxham tore a ligament during practice and Falkenstein has developed a ‘hip pointer’.
1990 H. G. Bissinger Friday Night Lights ii. 44 A shot of novocaine during halftime to mask the pain of a deep ankle sprain or a hip pointer.
2015 Toronto Star (Nexis) 28 Aug. s4 Cato went down in the second quarter with a hip pointer.
hip replacement n. the surgical procedure of replacing all or part of the hip joint (often the head and upper part of the femur) with a prosthesis or prostheses, typically in order to treat arthritis; an instance of this; (also and in earliest use) a prosthesis used in this procedure.
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1950 Texas State Jrnl. Med. 46 250/2 (caption) Roentgenogram six months after insertion of a Vitallium hip replacement.
1969 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 8 Feb. p. xxxii/1 Total hip replacement.
1985 N. Herman My Kleinian Home 22 She got up from her leather chair with the slight difficulty that she has experienced since her hip replacement operation.
2014 People's Friend 29 Mar. 44/3 Nordic walking is great therapy for people who have had hip replacements, knee problems, or..a shoulder injury.
hip revolver n. a revolver worn on the hip or carried in a hip pocket or hip holster.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol > revolver > types of
six-shooter1844
five-shooter1848
belt revolver1853
six-shooting1858
pepperbox1861
service revolver1864
navy1867
six chamber1877
forty-five1881
pepper castor1889
hip revolver1897
six-gun1912
six chamber revolver1922
police special1935
thirty-two1942
thirty-eight1953
1897 A. Conan Doyle Trag. Korosko in Strand Mag. iii. 648/2 I've got a little hip revolver which they have not discovered.
1949 Advertiser (Adelaide) 20 Oct. 2/8 Strolling on the British side of the street was Police Inspector Oliver. The Communists stared at his unfamiliar uniform and hip-revolver.
2005 Eve Apr. 91/1 The Nairobi blue boys with their hip revolvers.
hip-shooter n. originally and chiefly U.S. a person who fires a gun held near the hip, without taking proper aim, typically in order to shoot quickly; (in later use chiefly figurative) a person who makes snap decisions or acts impulsively; cf. to shoot from the hip at shoot v. Additions.
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1899 Forest & Stream 25 Feb. 150/2 There are several hip shooters..and they are good shots too.
1964 N.Y. Times 19 July e3/4 They will call him [sc. Senator Goldwater] impulsive, a hip-shooter, a naïve reactionary.
2001 F. Steen Black Knight Alfa v. 72 We were more accurate hip shooters and quicker on the draw.
2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 1 Oct. v. 12/3 You can't have a CEO who's a hip-shooter.
hip shooting n. chiefly U.S. the firing of a gun held near the hip, without taking proper aim, typically in order to shoot quickly; (also figurative) the practice of making snap decisions or acting impulsively; cf. to shoot from the hip at shoot v. Additions.
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1866 Standard 30 July 3/5 Davis held his patent breech-loader by a double leather strap over the shoulder horizontally for hip-shooting.
1973 Washington Post 26 Dec. 5/5 He insisted that hip-shooting is better than not shooting—that is, not making decisions—at all.
2000 R. Mroz Defensive Shooting for Real-life Encounters viii. 79 One-handed, Applegate-style point shooting was only used from 10 feet, while hip shooting was used at 3 feet.
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1768 J. R. Forster Introd. Mineral. 19 Hip-stone, nephritic stone (Lapis nephriticus) is a semi-diaphanous pot-stone,..unctuous to the touch, is capable of a tolerable polish and of a green colour.
1797 W. Johnston tr. J. Beckmann Hist. Inventions & Discov. I. 215 Vegetable dies, when united with wax, become greenish, so that the wax almost resembles the hip-stone [Ger. Nierenstein].
1879 L. Rousselet tr. M. de Hauteville Serpent-charmer xi. 139 The mosaics were formed of precious stones, agates, hip stones, turquoises, and fragments of crystal.
hip strap n. a strap that fastens at or around the hips; spec. (a) a strap forming part of the harness for a carriage, passing over the horse's hips and buckling on either side into the breeching strap (see breeching n. 3); (b) a strap or belt on a backpack, etc., that fastens around the hips and is designed to help distribute weight from the shoulders to the hips (cf. hip belt n. (b)).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > hip-strap
hip strap1761
1761 Invoice 31 Mar. in G. Washington Papers (1990) VII. 23 4 pr Hipstraps with Billet Leather.
1879 Rep. Paris Universal Exhib. 1878 570 The split parts of the winker straps and hip straps are also cut in waves.
1921 A. B. Hulbert Paths of Inland Commerce iv. 58 The harness of the six horses attached to the wagon was proportionately heavy, the back bands being fifteen inches wide, the hip straps ten, and the traces consisting of ponderous iron chains.
1968 Boys' Life 37/2 Hip strap attaches to bottom of Cruiser-type frames, helps distribute load from shoulders to hips.
1981 E. H. Edwards Country Life Bk. Saddlery & Equipm. 185/3 The backband and hip straps take the weight of these chains with a spreader..placed between the chains behind the horse's quarters to keep them apart.
2010 N. Peacock & J. M. Irion in J. M. Irion & G. Irion Women's Health in Physical Therapy vviii. 410/1 Most front packs come with a wide hip strap, similar to a hiking backpack, to distribute the baby's weight through the mother's pelvis.
hip throw n. (in combat sports) a throw in which an opponent is thrown over the hip to the ground.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > martial arts > [noun] > judo or ju-jitsu > actions or positions
armlock1841
hip throw1850
neck lock1876
breakfall1906
sutemi-waza1906
tomoe-nage1906
tsurikomi-goshi1906
uchimata1906
uki-goshi1906
uki-otoshi1906
ura-nage1906
corner throw1911
sumi-gaeshi1918
yoko-shiho-gatame1918
kesa-gatame1932
o-goshi1932
osaekomi-waza1932
seoi nage1932
take-down1939
harai goshi1941
osae-waza1941
tsukuri1941
uki-waza1941
body drop1948
tsurikomi-ashi1948
jigotai1950
kuzushi1950
tai-otoshi1950
tsugi ashi1950
hold-down1954
reaping1954
shime-waza1954
ude-garami1954
ude-gatame1954
uki-gatame1954
osotogari1956
shoulder throw1956
tsurikomi1956
ukemi1956
reap1968
1850 Emancipator & Republican (Boston) 7 Mar. Doc ‘showed science’, and although a much lighter man than Hutchins, kept that gentleman very busy.., almost giving him a hip throw.
1904 King 18 June 371/2 The Hip Throw. Swinging his opponent round, and gripping his arm and shoulder, a wrestler will bring him over his hip, and flat upon his shoulders.
1957 S. Takagaki & H. E. Sharp Techniques 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.
2016 Royston (Herts.) Crow (Nexis) 20 Oct. 16 It was a bruising match and King went ahead by a Wazari, but got caught with a hip throw and the dream was over.
hip yoke n. Dressmaking a closely fitting piece of a skirt or pair of trousers, extending from the waist to the hips, to which the rest of the garment is attached.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > hip
hip1705
yoke1849
yoke piece1868
yoke back1876
hip yoke1878
1878 People (Indianapolis) 16 Mar. 7/4 The new, short costume which the Bazar hopes to make popular consists of four pieces: the cutaway jacket, the waistcoat, the scarf, and pleated skirt with hip yoke.
1929 Shiner (Texas) Gaz. 20 June The yoke blouse with a ‘sun back’, also the flaring trunks with a hip yoke, are important style details.
2014 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 10 July e1 Miniskirts had corseted hip yokes.
b. (In sense 2.) See also hip roof n.† hip mould n. Architecture Obsolete (a) the upper edge of a hip rafter (= hip moulding n. (a)); (b) a raised or incised ornamental contour given to a hip rafter (= hip moulding n. (b)).
hip knob n. Architecture (now chiefly historical) an ornamental ball or finial positioned where the ridge and hips of a roof meet.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > other ornaments
pommela1300
crest1430
finial1448
balloon1592
brattishingc1593
knob1610
cartouche1611
ogive1611
fret1626
galace1663
acroterion1664
paternoster1728
semi-urn1742
patera1776
purfling1780
sailing course1807
vesica piscis (also piscium)1809
antefix1819
vesica1820
garland1823
stop1825
Aaron's rod1830
headwork1831
Vitruvian scroll1837
hip knob1838
stelea1840
ball-flower1840
notch-head1843
brandishing1846
buckle1848
cat's-head1848
bucrane1854
cresting1869
semi-ball1875
canephorus1880
crest-board1881
wave pattern1905
husk1934
foliate head1939
green man1939
1838 Archit. Mag. Nov. 492 The gables..should then be carried up in curved lines, alternating with two angles, or three at the most, without pinnacles or hip-knobs.
1927 Adelaide Chron. 12 Mar. 52/4 The two ends of the aerial wire are connected with insulators to the hip knobs or irons on the corners of the roof.
2001 K. Tuttle Sylvanus Marston iv. 53 Hip knobs originally finished the roof corners.
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1668 in G. Richards tr. A. Palladio 1st Bk. Archit. (ed. 2) liii. 239 The backs of the Hips or Hip mould due to each corner.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Hip-Mould, is by some used for the back of the Hip. Others understand it of a Prototype, or Pattern, commonly made of a Piece of thin Wainscot; by which the Back, and the Sides of the Hip are set out.
1834 J. Billington Archit. Director (ed. 2) Gloss. 79 Hip-moulds, sometimes signify the backs of a hip, and at others a pattern for setting it out.
1902 Metal Worker 20 Dec. 9 The hip molds are to have beaded flanges, to be secured to the wood cores.
hip moulding n. Architecture †(a) the upper edge of a hip rafter (cf. back n.1 16); obsolete. (b) a raised or incised ornamental contour given to a hip rafter (now rare).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > projecting inclined edge > outer angle of
hip mould1668
hip moulding1679
1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. Explan. Terms 163 Back or Hip-molding, the backward Hips or Valley-Rafters in the way of an Angle for the back part of a Building.
1734 Builder's Dict. I. at Baguette Baguette is a Term used by Carpenters, for a..Hip-Moulding; by which is meant the outward Angle, or the Hips or Corners of a Roof.
1793 T. Sheraton Cabinet-maker & Upholsterer's Drawing-bk. I. i. 114 Which will also receive and hide the upper ends of the hip-mouldings.
1879 Rep. Proc. Board State House Commissioners Indiana 59 (table) Lineal feet copper ridge and hip moulding.
1908 G. Ellis Mod. Pract. Joinery (ed. 3) 223 The section of a jack-bar can be obtained by setting off the horizontal projections of the hip moulding..parallel on each side of the line.
1940 T. Hamlin Archit. through Ages v. 413 The roof ridge is stopped at each end by a great dragonfish form. The big hip moldings stop before the corner of the roof is reached with a somewhat similar animal.
hip pole n. Architecture (now rare) a beam that extends along the hip of a roof, into which the hip rafter is fastened.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > roof-beam > rafter > posts
pendant1359
pendant-post1359
side post1625
crown post1663
king piece1663
king post1669
hip pole1783
queen post1797
king1811
queen1811
middle post1819
ashlar-piece1869
wall-post1871
pendentive1893
1783 Philos. Trans. 1782 (Royal Soc.) 72 367 This hip-pole was supported, at its proper distance from the hip-rafter, by an iron-strap, or holdfast.
1898 F. E. Kidder Building Constr. & Superintendence II. iv. 194 When galvanized iron or copper hip rolls are used it is best to nail a wooden hip pole to the roof, under the metal roll, and the latter should be nailed to it.
1941 Sheet Copper (Copper & Brass Res. Assoc.) 42/2 It is fastened to the wooden hip pole with clamps.
hip rafter n. Architecture the rafter which extends along and supports the hip of a roof.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > roof-beam > rafter > others
hip1363
hip rafter1663
knee-rafter1679
sleeper1688
valley-piece1823
valley-rafter1823
binding-rafter1842
subprincipal1842
1663 W. Pope Of Roofs in G. Richards tr. A. Palladio 1st Bk. Archit. xlix. 222 Strutts or Braces from the Crown post to the Hip Rafter.
1783 Philos. Trans. 1782 (Royal Soc.) 72 367 This hip-pole was supported, at its proper distance from the hip-rafter, by an iron-strap, or holdfast.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 222 Dragon-beam, the piece of timber which supports the hip-rafter, and bisects the angle formed by the wall plates.
1907 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 1906 20: Pt. 2 54 Lay the square on with the length of the hip rafter.
2014 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 1 June (Life section) 13 The battens are wet and rotten in the remainder of the roof and..one of the hip rafters has rotted on its top edge.
hip roll n. Architecture (originally) a wooden roll over which lead is placed on the hip of a roof; (now more generally) a rounded strip of wood, metal, tiling, etc., used to cover the hip.
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1859 Contract, Specif. & Schedule of Prices Departmental Buildings, Ottawa City 29 The Hip rolls and ridges to be covered with lead 6lbs. to the foot, 20 inches wide, dressed neatly on to the slates.
1987 APT Bull. 19 19/1 The slate had been replaced by cement-asbestos shingles, and the original hip rolls, cresting.., dormers and bull's-eye windows all had been removed.
2003 G. Söffker & P. Thrift tr. E. Schunck et al. Roof Constr. Man. ii. 202/3 (caption) The hip roll overlaps the sheet metal on the roof surface 200mm on both sides.
hip tile n. Architecture a type of tile typically having a semicircular or curved section and used to cover the hips of a roof; cf. ridge tile n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > tile > [noun] > for roofing > for hip
hip tile1363
corner-tile1477
1363 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1952) 231 (MED) Crestes voc' hypetyl.
1404–5 in Notes & Queries (1913) 29 Nov. 426/1 In C huptylez et ix Rooftyle.
1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 4 Hip Tiles, which are used sometimes for..Hips of Rooffs.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. ii. 505 Ridge roof and hip tiles are formed cylindrically, to cover the ridges of houses.
1935 Monumenta Serica 1 265 The side-joints are covered with stone-cut hip-tiles.
2004 P. Hymers New Home Builder vii. 155 Clay hip tiles are usually produced bonnet-shaped and are wonderfully aesthetic.
hip truss n. Architecture a combination of timbers supporting a hip rafter.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > roof-beam > other roof supports
soulace1374
forkc1420
sispar1532
bougars1568
straining-beama1805
straining-piecea1805
straining-silla1805
hip truss1850
roost1880
shoulder-wedge1887
main tie1915
1850 Builder 7 Dec. 583/2 The pillars with the entablature above supporting the hip trusses at either end of the hall..have been entirely removed.
1871 Cassell's Techn. Educator I. 168/1 The true shape of the hip-truss.
1925 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 19 Sept. 11/4 The framework of the roof..consisting of two main trusses each weighing about one and three-quarter tons, two hip trusses weighing nearly two tons each.
2009 Carlsbad (New Mexico) Current-Argus (Nexis) 13 June Raised hip trusses allow for 18 inches of insulation over the entire ceiling.
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hipn.2
/hɪp/, U.S. /hɪp/α. Old English heape (Northumbrian, dative), Old English heop- (in compounds), Old English heopa, Old English heope, Old English hiope, early Middle English hoepe, Middle English heepe, Middle English heeppe, Middle English hepe, Middle English hoo- (in a compound, transmission error), Middle English howpe, Middle English hupe, Middle English–1500s heppe, Middle English– hep, 1600s–1700s hepp, 1800s ep (English regional (Yorkshire)), 1800s epp (English regional (Yorkshire)), 1800s hepp (English regional (Yorkshire)).
β. Middle English hipe, Middle English hyppys (plural), 1500s hipp, 1500s– hip, 1800s hyp (Scottish), 1800s ip (English regional (Oxfordshire)).
The fruit of the rose, which is a small rounded pome, typically orange-red in colour, with a variety of uses including the making of preserves and syrup; = rose hip n.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > rose-hip
hipeOE
rose hip1833
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > brier or wild rose-bush > [noun] > part of > hip
hipeOE
shoop1483
pear1576
hedge-peak1630
choop1820
rose berry1822
rose hip1833
hedge-speak1847
α.
β. c1415 (c1390) G. Chaucer Sir Thopas (Lansd.) (1871) l. 1937 Swete as is þe brembel floure Þat bereþe þe rede hipe [c1405 Hengwrt hepe, c1410 Harl. 7334 heepe, c1425 Petworth heppe].1576 G. Pettie Petite Pallace 110 Hard cheere, with hawes and hippes.1581 B. Rich Farewell Militarie Profession D iij Hippes, Hawes, and Slowes.1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 948 Eating hipps, and drinking watry fome.1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 361 A red berry like to the hips of an Eglantine.1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick xi. i. 322 Conserve of Hips of the Canker Rose, well clensed, and boyled with Sugar into the Form of a Marmalade, doth powerfully cool the Liver.1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 69. ¶5 That no Fruit grows Originally among us, besides Hips and Haws, Acorns and Pig-Nutts.1785 W. Cowper Task i. 120 I fed on scarlet hips and stony haws.1840 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg iii, in New Monthly Mag. 60 398 Pretty Cis..Who blushes as red as haws and hips.a1861 E. B. Browning Last Poems (1862) 50 The little red hip on the tree Is ripe for such.1902 Irish Monthly 30 688 A still more heartening hue is that of the hip. Big and bonny is the berry of the wild rose , and its scarlet is a tint that thrills.1977 Vole No. 1. 34/3 The rugosas flower for weeks and have lovely hips.2012 Guardian 13 Oct. (Weekend Suppl.) 88 I hope you'll sally forth again and again as the autumn progresses, to gather hips, haws and their wild brethren.eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. xxxviii. 96 Genim brer þe hiopan on weaxaþ.
OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 73 Butunus, heope.
a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) 675 Perperonges [glossed] hepes [a1325 Arun. piperounges [glossed] hepen; a1400 Corpus Cambr. howpes, a1425 All Souls hupe].
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1811 Hawes, hepus, & hakernes & þe hasel-notes.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 4974 Hawen, hepen, slon, and crabben.
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 183 An Heppe, cornum.
1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. ev Hawys and heeppes and other thyng ynow.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 119 Let them..take hede that make tartes of Heppes.
1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 2 Men them selves..Did liue by Respis, heppes & hawes.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §633 It may bee Heps and briar-Berries would doe the like.
1686 Sanderson's XXXVI Serm. 599 Hepps and Haws grow in every hedge.
1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 125 Take Conserve of red Roses 2 Ounces; Conserve of Heps 1 Ounce; [etc.].
1786 J. Abercrombie Gardener's Pocket Dict. I. 167 Very large apple-shaped prickly eatable heps; sometimes made into sweetmeats.
?1850 B. Maund Bot. Garden XIII. No. 1233 Deposit the heps, when ripe, in pots of soil, and plunge them into a dry border.
1894 Gardening 15 Sept. 3/3 From the white flower comes an orange yellow and from the pink, a bright red and glossy hep.
1934 E. S. Rohde Gardens of Delight vi. 157 Wild-rose heps make an uncommon marmalade... Allow half a pint of water to each pound of ripe heps and boil till they are quite tender.
1976 S. M. Gault Dict. Shrubs in Colour 189/2 The opulence of their fruits, hips or heps.
2016 Canberra Times (Nexis) 8 May c13 Many modern rose varieties have surprisingly delicious heps, even if they don't turn bright red and classically fat.
Compounds
General attributive, as hip-berry, hip-bramble [bramble n.1] , hip-tree, etc.
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eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. li. 266 Genim hindheoloþan leaf..& garclifan, heopbrem bremles [read heopbremles] leaf, wyl.
OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 80 Rubus, heopbrymel.
a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Trin. Cambr.) (1929) 675 Hepe tre [a1425 All Souls hupe tre; a1325 Cambr. brere, a1333 BL Add. brimbel; glossing Fr. Engleter].
c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 20* Aube-espyne et eglenter, hawethorne hepetre.
a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 36 Rosa canina.., heppebrer.
a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 157 Rubi,..hepebrembel.
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 183 An Heppe tre [?c1475 BL Add. 15562 Hepe tre], cornus.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. i. 46 Quhar hepthorne buskis on the top grew hie.
1578 T. Twyne tr. P. Drouet New Counsell against Pestilence xi. sig. G.iji The Tree..is al the stemme ouer full of sharpe prickles lyke the hip tree.
1653 Choice Man. Secrets Physick & Chyrurgery 110 Take the seeds of Parsley, of red Fennel,..of the kernels of Hip Berries, of each a like quantity.
1677 E. Browne Acct. Trav. Germany 112 They sell..Tablets.., made of the pulpe of the Fruit of Hip-briar, made sharp with Spirit of Sulphur, very refreshing.
1737 J. Brickell Nat. Hist. N.-Carolina 90 The Briar-Rose, or Hip-Tree, is to be met with in some places, especially on dry Lands.
1796 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVIII. xi. 242 The hawthorn, hip thorn, the wild rasp, and elder, with all the varieties of the bramble, are frequently to be seen.
1825 J. Clare Let. 21 Apr. in M. Grainger Nat. Hist. Prose Writings (1985) 78 There are two sorts of the hedge roses or hip brambles easily distinguished.
1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 116 Red dog rose or hep tree.
1890 Gardeners' Chron. 22 Mar. 368/2 At Stanwell were raised at this period those popular Hip Roses,..which commanded a great sale.
1927 Everybody's Nov. 10/1 ‘Boloney!’ booes Side-Trap. ‘You couldn't hypnotise a quart of hip-syrup.’
1950 ‘B. B.’ Tide's Ending vii. 64 Bright orange hip berries growing on the bank of the burn.
2001 Anthropol. Today 17 15 (caption) There is a Pallas's Warbler somewhere in this hip bush.
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hipn.4
/hɪp/, U.S. /hɪp/ slang (originally U.S.).
1. The quality or condition of being hip (hip adj. 2); fashionable sophistication.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun]
fashionableness1640
à-la-modeness1669
modishness1676
à la modality1753
tonishness1780
style1807
stylishnessa1817
fashionability1840
swellishness1863
hep1899
hipness1937
coolness1951
hip1956
cool1962
hipdom1962
with-it-ness1963
funkiness1974
1956 N. Mailer in Village Voice (N.Y.) 25 Apr. 5/3 Hip is an exploration into the nature of man, and its emphasis is on the Self rather than Society.
1968 T. Wolfe Electric Kool-aid Acid Test xxi. 301 48-year-old bohos sucking up to young heads of the new generation of Hip.
1989 R. Kenan Visitation of Spirits 161 Now he was a legitimate jock and could hang out with the football players and the basketball players and not be put down for his lack of hip and cool.
2005 FQ (Canada) Spring 106 Vogue deemed her [sc. Edie Sedgwick] a ‘youthquaker’—the epitome of hip—in 1965.
2. With the and plural agreement. Hip people or things as a class.
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1967 H. Cruse Crisis Negro Intellect. ii. 274 The world of marijuana fumes and esoteric jazz-buffing to the formalistic tune of ‘new jazz sounds’ for the connoisseurs of the hip.
1970 M. Pei Words in Sheep's Clothing iv. 32 A particular, limited, enclosed, yet liberating style of life or art, into and out of which the hip slip easily.
1995 Take One Summer 15/1 Their work would speak to an audience of Canadians who delighted in the hip, the transgressive, the rockin', the new.
2008 J. Burchill & C. Newkey-Burden Not in my Name p. ix It is the hypocrisy..of the hip, of those who—externally at least—hold admirable, humanitarian values, but behind closed doors, when push comes to shove, prove to be far darker beings.
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hipadj.
/hɪp/, U.S. /hɪp/ slang (originally U.S.).
1. Aware, well-informed; in the know. Often in to be (also get) hip to something: to be or become aware of or well-informed about something.In early use chiefly amongst African Americans, in jazz, swing, etc., contexts: cf. hep adj. Later more widely adopted, and now often coloured by sense 2.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > well-informed
hip1904
down1952
hipsterish1959
the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > smart
gallantc1420
galliard1513
fine1526
trickly1580
pink1598
genteel1601
sparkful1605
sparkish1657
jaunty1662
spankinga1666
shanty1685
trig1725
smartish1738
distinguished1748
nobby1788
dashing1801
vaudy1805
swell1810
distingué1813
dashy1822
nutty1823
chic1832
slicked1836
flash1838
rakish1840
spiffy1853
smart1860
sassy1861
classy1870
spiffing1872
toffish1873
tony1877
swish1879
hep1899
toffy1901
hip1904
toppy1905
in1906
floozy1911
swank1913
jazz1917
ritzy1919
smooth1920
snappy1925
snazzy1931
groovy1937
what ho1937
gussy1940
criss1954
high camp1954
sprauncy1957
James Bondish1966
James Bond1967
schmick1972
designer1978
atas1993
as fine as fivepence-
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > worldly wisdom > [adjective]
world-wiseOE
worldly-wisec1400
smart1571
shrewd1589
hard1655
sharp1697
auld-farrant1702
up to snuff1810
canny1816
savvy1826
worldly1829
lairy1846
facultized1872
sophisticated1895
hep1899
hip1904
streetwise1949
ready1967
kewl1990
1904 G. V. Hobart Jim Hickey i. 15 At this rate it'll take about 629 shows to get us to Jersey City, are you hip?
1926 Flynn's 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.
1959 E. Hunter Matter of Conviction xi. 195 ‘Car aerials [used as weapons] are dispensable. Guns aren't.’ ‘You're hip to the car aerials, huh?’
1976 Down Beat 17 June 16/2 How much of your audience do you think is hip to all the slang terminology you use?
1987 Amer. Speech 62 58 The adoption by whites of erstwhile black slang terms like hip during the late 1960s was a common talking point among blacks.
1996 Los Angeles Times 18 Sept. f2 I knew they would eventually get hip and see me on TV and say, ‘Let's go get him.’
2012 L. Schulman Fallen Idols 173 I was hip to the folk music scene and once I heard the name David Gahr, I knew I was in the presence of royalty.
2. More generally: fashionable, up-to-date; stylish, sophisticated; cool (sometimes in ironic use). Now the usual sense.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective]
in (also into) request?1574
bonfacion1584
fashional?1607
of request1613
fashionablea1627
à la mode1642
all the mode1651
modish1661
in mode1664
timeish1676
of vogue1678
voguea1695
mody1701
alamodic1753
much the mode1767
tonish1778
go1784
stylish1800
bang-up1810
tippy1810
varmint1823
up to the knocker1844
gyvera1866
OK1869
fly1879
swagger1879
doggy1885
faddy1885
fantoosh1920
voguish1927
voguey1928
à la page1930
go1937
hard1938
hip1939
down1952
swinging1958
a-go-go1960
way-in1960
yé-yé1960
trendy1962
with-it1962
go-go1963
happening1965
mod1965
funky1967
together1968
fash1977
cred1987
1939 C. Calloway New Cab Calloway's Cat-ologue Hip, wise, sophisticated, anyone with boots on.
1944 D. Burley Orig. Handbk. Harlem Jive 106 I'm so hip it hurts, I'm so sharp I figure I'll cut myself on these creases.
1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. i. 10 Elmer Hassel, with that hip sneer.
1961 Listener 9 Nov. 786/1 As Norman Mailer would say, it's ‘hip’ to use obscure terms and meaningless symbols.
1966 H. 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.
1972 V. Ferdinand in A. Chapman New Black Voices 472 We sometimes..go in for that kind of living thinking it's hip.
1995 Independent on Sunday 26 Feb. 12/8 At festivals you find young folkie fans who tie in with the grungy and traveller scenes, and that's quite a hip, cult thing.
2013 Daily Tel. 29 Aug. 20/1 If you believe the latest survey, Britain has never felt younger, hipper or more ‘with it’.
Compounds
C1.
hip-looking adj.
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1964 Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 11 Dec. d1/3 (advt.) Contemporary shade light. Very hip looking.
1997 K. Nussey War in Heaven 54 Marnie seemed taken aback that I'd ever had access to this hip-looking, handsome woman in leather and jeans.
2013 Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 29/3 What works is classic, drapey, slouchy, hip-looking dresses or trouser suits that aren't trying to be too edgy.
C2.
hip talk n. speech characteristic of hip people; esp. slang or idiom considered as fashionable or cool.
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1961 A. Ginsberg in W. C. Williams Empty Mirror 18 I tried to be friendly but heard myself talking..in hiptalk.
1963 A. Baraka Blues People xii. 202 Much of the ‘hip talk’ comes directly from the addict's jargon as well as from the musician's.
2004 D. Suzuki & H. Dressel From Naked Ape to Superspecies ix. 306 For some, it may be reassuring to get off the plane in Manila and..exchange hip talk with an Asian teenager about the latest supergroup.
Derivatives
ˈhiply adv. in a hip style or manner.
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1957 Down Beat 21 Mar. 25/2 Woody sings with the late-night warmth and ease of phrasing that have long made him so enjoyable—and hiply restful—a singer.
1970 A. Ginsberg Let. 22 Dec. (2008) 360 I had consistently criticized the police bureaucracy of Cuba for..harassment of bearded hiply dressed youths.
2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 6 Dec. (Review section) 24 This abominable multi-strand drama..doesn't offer any insight into the matter: it's too hiply detached for all that.
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hipv.1
/hɪp/, U.S. /hɪp/, Scottish English /hɪp/ Now rare (Scottish and English regional (northern) in later use).
1. † c. intransitive. To walk with a limping gait; to limp, to hobble. Obsolete.
a. intransitive. Of a person or animal: to hop, jump, leap, or spring; to move with or as with successive hops or leaps, to skip; spec. (of an animal, esp. a bird) to move by leaping with all or both feet at once; (later also, of a person) to hop on one leg. Frequently with adverbs and prepositions, as along, over, upon, etc. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this sense as still in use in Roxburghshire in 1957.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > hop
hipc1275
hop1700
hitch1868
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 1636 (MED) Þe nihtegale..hupte uppon on blowe ris.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 4231 Þe king hupte [v.r. skypped] her & þer & leyde on euere vaste.
c1390 MS Vernon Homilies in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 277 (MED) Vp he ros þis foul to nyme, And hit hupte [a1425 Harl. 4196 hipped] feire by foren hyme.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xv. l. 557 Bishopes..Þat hippe [c1400 Trin. Cambr. huppe] aboute in Engelonde to halwe mennes auteres.
c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. l. 16538 When thei were comen to her schippis, Eche man afftir other In hippis.
c1450 (c1405) Mum & Sothsegger (BL Add. 41666) (1936) l. 1240 Hye þe hens to his hows and hippe euene amyddes.
c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) xxxv (MED) From beugh to beugh thay hippit and thai plaid.
1658 G. Wither Salt upon Salt 62 The lovely Desart-Owl..Is not hipt at..by Wag-Tayls, Dawes and Crows.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Hip, to hitch or hop on one foot.
1856 J. Collie Poems 122 I cou'd hae sprang a ditch as clean As ony stag That ever hippit o'er a green.
1915 H. R. Garis Bully & Bawly No-Tail iv. 30 And on he hipped and skipped and hopped with his basket.
1925 E. C. Smith Mang Howes 4 An a feelin-herteet yallih-yorleen, hippin alang the deike.
b. intransitive. Of an object: to move suddenly as though with a leap; esp. to spring back, to rebound; to bounce (in early use chiefly with again). Also of fire: to spread rapidly.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > start or spring back
hipc1300
again-frusha1382
recoil1513
to startle back1576
c1300 St. Nicholas (Harl.) l. 391 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 563 To þe weued..Þe coupe he offrede... Þe couple hipte anon aȝe; he nolde astinte þere, Ac hipte into þe flor, wreche as þeȝ hit were.
a1325 St. Peter (Corpus Cambr.) l. 84 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 249 Is ueteres þat he was wiþ ibonde Fram him hupte boþ anon, and fel adoun to gronde.
a1350 St. Juliana (Ashm.) (1957) 86 Þat fur bigan to sprede; Fram þe chetel it hupte aboute in lengþe and in brede.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1459 Þe hede hypped aȝayn, were-so-euer hit hitte.
c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. l. 12650 (MED) Thei kest wildfir In here schippes; Fro schip to schip aboute it hippes.
2012 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. (Nexis) 15 Sept. 16 Fin the last ba gaed oot an hippit, oor champion hirpl't aff the coort.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > limp
haltc825
cripplec1220
hip1440
limp1570
linch1570
claudicate1623
hop1700
crimple1754
hilch1786
crutch1828
hamble1828
dot1843
peg-leg1969
[implied in: Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 241 Hyppynge, or haltynge, claudicacio. (at hipping n.1 1.)].
c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 152 (MED) Boistows j am and haltinge and wronge; To the virly j go hippinge.
a1500 (?c1450) Bone Florence (1976) l. 1991 He came thedur wyth an euyll Hyppyng on two stavys.
?1590 Merry Iest of Robin Hood viii. sig. G2v Full hastely they began to flee both yeomen and knaues, And olde wiues that might euill goe they hipped on their staues.
2. † b. intransitive. To pass from one point, matter, etc., to another, with omission of what intervenes; to skip over without comment. Obsolete. rare.In quot. a1701 as part of an extended metaphor.
a. transitive. Now chiefly Shetland. To pass over, pass by; to omit, skip. Cf. overhip v. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this sense as still in use in Fife, Midlothian, and Shetland in 1957.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun > a problem or difficulty
hipc1440
illude1553
to give (a person or thing) the go-by1654
slink1658
jump1844
sidestep1899
burke1921
duck1928
bypass1941
c1440 (?c1350) [implied in: c1440 (?c1350) in G. G. Perry Relig. Pieces in Prose & Verse (1914) 40 (MED) These makes hippynge, homerynge, of medles momellynge [in praying]. (at hipping n.1 2.)].
1487 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 52 Thai sall..tak thair meitt of ilk ane..and hip nane.
1608 in T. Mair Narr. & Extracts Rec. Presbytery of Ellon (1898) 79 He wes fund falt with, that..he had hippit sum questionis.
1639 R. Baillie Let. 28 Sept. (1841) I. 216 The next meeting appointed on the Wednesday, for one day was hipped for advysement on all hands on what was past.
1753 A. Nicol Rural Muse 51 Ay skipping and hipping The words I most intended.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Hip, to pass by, to skip over.
1892 G. Stewart Shetland Fireside Tales (ed. 2) 249 Whin da sprootins cam' up pieces o' furs wir hipped here an' dere a' ower da rig.
1914 J. S. Angus Gloss. Shetland Dial. 62 Whan du spelt boat b-o-t dan du hippet da a.
1979 J. J. Graham Shetland Dict. 38/1 Hip, to omit; to pass over. He göd trowe maist o da letter but hippit twartree bits.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > discontinuity or interrupted condition > become discontinuous [verb (intransitive)] > make abrupt transition
hipc1570
jump1579
c1570 Schort Somme 1st Bk. Discpl. 75 Reideris sal..not hip from place to place.
a1701 A. Bonifield Treacherous taken in Treachery 96 His so hipping and skipping, as I may say, over Mountains and Hills, and thus stumbling, or rather quarrelling at meer Turfs or Mould-Hills.
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hipv.2
/hɪp/, U.S. /hɪp/ΚΠ
1529 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1903) V. 357 Half an eln of purpure velvot to hip the..hois [= hose].
2. transitive. Architecture. To form (something, esp. a roof) with a hip or sloping edge; to give a hip to. Often (and in earliest use) in to hip off: to finish off with a sloping edge. Cf. slightly earlier hipped adj.1 3.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > roof > form with sloping edge
hip1669
1669 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 557 The roofe..to be made after the best manner hipt of.
1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 13 The front of each Pier is hip'd of.
1783 Philos. Trans. 1782 (Royal Soc.) 72 358 Both flanks..at their north and south ends are hipped off from the ridge of the roof to the eaves on each side.
1849 J. Fergusson Hist. Inq. True Princ. Beauty in Art I. i. ii. 373 It is probable that the Greeks might have concealed..such a form externally..by hipping the roof.
1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. vii. 346 A very steep tiled roof, hipped all ways.
1908 J. B. Robinson Archit. Composition ix. 87 The end gables were discarded and the roof was hipped to make it harmonize..with those of the oriels and veranda.
1999 Archaeol. Jrnl. 156 118 The roof was hipped off at both ends..suggesting there were no upper chambers over the end rooms.
3. transitive. Wrestling and Martial Arts. To lift or throw (an opponent) over one's hip. Chiefly U.S. in later use.Cf. hipe v.2, hip throw n. at hip n.1 Compounds 5a.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > wrestle with [verb (transitive)] > manoeuvres
casta1300
hurl1613
hip1675
back-clamp1713
buttock1823
fling1825
hipe1835
cross-buttock1878
pin1879
hank1881
hammer-lock1905
scissor1907
body slam1932
powerbomb1993
1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 70 And a prime Wrestler as e're tript, Ere gave the Cornish Hug, or Hipt.
1838 Bell's Life in London 10 June Collinson..was then hipped by Wills.
1879 N.Y. Times 16 Feb. 1/6 After a sharp tussle..he was hipped, thrown, and pinned to the floor.
1922 Wood County (Wisconsin) Tribune 25 Jan. 5/3 Lund had hipped him by the biceps before Rainey had taken a step.
1982 Progress (Clearfield, Pa.) 22 Mar. 13/2 The Mountie had good penetration on a single-leg, but..Buzza whizzered and hipped him for the takedown.
2011 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 14 Feb. b10/3 When he had me on my back, I ‘Granbied’ out of it..and hipped him over to his back.
4. transitive (originally U.S.). To hold or carry (someone or something) on one's hip. Now rare.In quot. 1919 apparently: to place in a hip pocket or hip holster.
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the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > carry > carry on the hip
hip1824
1824 ‘A. Singleton’ Lett. from South & West 93 Some mothers here [i.e. in Kentucky] hip their infants, as do the Sumatrans.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xx. 191 Still oftener each [log] is hipped. And hipping is done by one man..who adroitly whips up the log on his hip, and trots off with it.
1919 C. Morley Haunted Bookshop vii. 146 Feeling rather serio-comic he loaded his small revolver and hipped it.
1996 D. Bergen Year of Lesser 132 Her children have returned and she's standing in the foyer hipping her two-year- old.
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hipv.3
/hɪp/, U.S. /hɪp/ colloquial. Now rare.
transitive. To make melancholy, low-spirited, or irritable; to depress. Cf. earlier hyp n., hipped adj.2
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > make melancholy [verb (transitive)] > unwholesomely
hip1771
morbidize1850
1771 S. Neville Diary 14 Sept. (1950) vi. 115 A London inn is enough to hip anybody: the reason is that people of any fashion seldom eat or lie at them.
1843 G. W. Le Fevre Life Trav. Physician I. i. iii. 62 My constant attendance upon my patient had hipped me.
1886 F. W. Robinson Fair Maid III. iii. iii. 27 The place hips me to death.
1914 R. Dunn Youngest World xix. 446 That's the line of talk his Clara gives me..every time I tell her how she's hipped me.
1951 R. Armstrong Whinstone Drift iii. 38 He was hipped by Lank's contemptuous reference to the football he had played as ‘kids' stuff.’
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hipv.4
/hɪp/, U.S. /hɪp/ transitive. To encourage or cheer (a person) with a cry or shout of ‘hip’. Also (and now chiefly) intransitive: to shout ‘hip’, esp. as a cheer. Often reduplicated, and sometimes in collocation with hurrah v. (cf. hip hip hooray v.).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > applause > applaud [verb (transitive)] > by shouting
huzza1688
shout1706
hip1818
cheer1827
beshout1828
bravo1831
hurrah1832
jolly1891
hoch1909
1818 T. Moore Diary 7 Sept. in Mem. (1853) II. 157 They hipped and hurraed me as ‘the Poet, Patriot, and Pride of Ireland’.
1842 Dublin Univ. Mag. May 571/1 ‘I..move..that we drink to the health of our worthy sister.’... The next moment found me hip, hipping..to my mother's health.
1844 E. K. Kane Let. Aug. in W. Elder Biogr. E. K. Kane 1858 iv. 70 We toasted the Emperor of China, hip-hipped him, hurraed him.
1909 Portsmouth (Ohio) Daily Times 29 Dec. 11/8 They cheered loud and long, and hip-hipped, and expressed their approbation in other ways.
1939 Joplin (Missouri) News Herald 13 Oct. 8/5 All the papers [in New York]..hip-hipping Lou Gehrigs appointment as parole commissioner.
2008 A. G. Sjoerdsma Starting with Serotonin xxiii. 382 Sjoerdsma hip-hipped three times, then closed with a heartfelt ‘thank you’.
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hipv.5
/hɪp/, U.S. /hɪp/ slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). Frequently in African-American use.
transitive. To inform (a person) about something. to hip (a person) to something: to make (a person) aware of or wise to something. Cf. hep v. 1.In quot. 1932 perhaps intransitive in same sense.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > action of informing > give (information) [verb (transitive)] > inform (a person)
to teach a person a thingc888
meanOE
wiseOE
sayOE
wittera1225
tellc1225
do to witc1275
let witc1275
let seec1330
inform1384
form1399
lerea1400
to wit (a person) to saya1400
learn1425
advertise1431
givec1449
insense?c1450
instruct1489
ascertain1490
let1490
alighta1500
advert1511
signify1523
reform1535
advise1562
partake1565
resolve1568
to do to ware1594
to let into one's knowledge1596
intellect1599
possess1600
acquainta1616
alighten1615
recommenda1616
intelligence1637
apprise1694
appraise1706
introduce1741
avail1785
prime1791
document1807
to put up1811
to put a person au fait of1828
post1847
to keep (someone) straight1862
monish1866
to put next to1896
to put (one) wise (to)1896
voice1898
in the picture1900
to give (someone) a line on1903
to wise up1905
drum1908
hip1932
to fill (someone) in on1945
clue1948
background1961
to mark a person's card1961
to loop in1994
1932 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 9 Dec. 31/4 Hip, to give information.
1942 Yank 23 Dec. 18/1 Hip us, Santa, just what ya got.
1958 J. Kerouac Subterraneans 90 Sand must have hipped him quietly in a whisper somewhere what was happening with the lovers.
1973 Black World Jan. 64/2 I had just about decided to find some way to hip her to contraceptives.
1990 Interview Aug. 114/1 He's the guy that really initiated me into the rap scene and started hipping me to all the different words, you know, what they mean.
2006 Mod. Drummer Nov. 10/1 Thanks for hipping us to the good stuff that no one else will.
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hipint.n.3
/hɪp/, U.S. /hɪp/ A. int.
1. Used to attract attention, or to incite or encourage action. U.S. regional and historical in later use.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > [interjection] > other specific cries or exclamations
oeOE
heya1225
ouc1300
we13..
hac1320
how1377
how now?c1380
vaha1382
ha a!c1386
ha ha!c1386
hoa1400
ohoa1400
yowc1440
yoa1475
heh1475
hey ho?c1475
huffc1485
wemaya1500
whewa1500
wow1513
huffa?1520
gup?1528
ist1540
whow1542
hougha1556
whoo1570
good-now1578
ooh1602
phew1604
highday1606
huh1608
whoo-whoop1611
sessaa1616
tara1672
hegh1723
hip1735
waugha1766
whoofa1766
jee1786
goody1796
yaw1797
hech1808
whoo-ee1811
whizz1812
yah1812
soh1815
sirs1816
how1817
quep1822
soho1825
ow1834
ouch1838
pfui1838
suz1844
shoo1845
yoop1847
upsadaisy1862
houp-la1870
hooch1871
nu1892
ouff1898
upsy1903
oo-er1909
ooh-wee1910
eina1913
oops1921
whoopsie1923
whoops-a-daisy1925
hot-cha-cha1929
upsadaisy1929
walla1929
hotcha1931
hi-de-ho1936
po po po1936
ho-de-ho1941
oh, oh1944
oopsy1956
chingas1984
bambi2007
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [interjection] > specific call or hail
heya1225
halec1300
hillaa1400
what hoc1405
hoc1430
oyeza1450
heh1475
hi?c1475
oy1488
whata1556
holla1598
sola1598
hillo1603
hallow1674
woo-hoo1697
hip1735
yo-ho1748
high1760
yo-heave-ho1790
holla ho!1796
whoo-ee1811
hello1826
tit1827
hullo1857
ahoy1885
yoo-hoo1924
hi-de-hi1941
1735 Select Trials Old-Bailey II. 415/2 A Man..coming..up to my Brother, bid him stand and deliver. And then cryed Hip! upon which the Prisoner [sc. an accomplice] came up out of a Ditch.
1751 E. Moore Gil Blas iii. 46 Enter Melchior at the other Door. Mel. Hip! Hip!—Gil Blas!
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Hyp, or Hip, a mode of calling to one passing by; hip Michael, your head's on fire, a piece of vulgar wit to a red haired man.
1852 Househ. Words 5 June 275/1 As quickly as a voice cried out ‘Hep!’ (the bidding interjection)..so instantaneously fell the everlasting little hammer.
1888 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 27 Aug. 6/6 ‘Hip! Ar' ye truthin?’ exclaimed the girl as she sprang up.
1932 Sandusky (Ohio) Star-Jrnl. 6 Sept. 8/9 ‘Forward march.’.. The blockheads kept in perfect step as Windy shouted, ‘Hep! Hep! Hep!’.
2006 M. Paterson Voices From Dickens' London 48 Small boys would call out ‘Hip!’, the equivalent of ‘Oi!’ in today's parlance, as preamble to whatever ‘gum’ (abusive language) would follow.
2. Used as a communal shout or cheer, or to introduce such a cheer. Now rare except in collocation with hooray: see hip hip hooray int.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > applause > [interjection] > specific shout of applause
vivat1663
huzza1682
hey for1689
ancora1712
hurrah1716
bravo1761
hip1811
viva1842
rah1871
olé1914
brava1943
kaiso1947
yay1963
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > applause > [noun] > shouted applause > used to introduce a cheer
hip1811
1811 ‘A. F. Holstein’ Isadora of Milan III. vi. 81 Hip, hip! my girls; here's to the boy's better health.
1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. 89 An' oon cried hip, hip, hip! an' hollied, An' t'others all struck in, an' vollied.
1876 Logansport (Indiana) Jrnl. 11 Apr. Hip! Whoop! 'Rah for somebody, do!
1913 Washington Daviess County (Indiana) Democrat 5 July 3/3 ‘Hip, hip, hip,—whoa’, was the way the fans greeted ‘Red’ Cooley when he appeared in the box.
1921 Everybody's Mag. July 139/1 ‘Come on—long cheer for Cornell. Hip-hip—’. They..rowed back up-stream.
1932 New Yorker 8 16 Hip, hip, hip and a holiday shout For Owney Madden and Wesley Stout. Hip, hip, hip and a lusty yell For Robert Lovett, and Adele.
B. n.3
A cry of ‘hip!’, used to incite action or to introduce a communal cheer. Now only in collocation with hooray: see hip hip hooray n.
ΚΠ
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 67 Perhaps Dr. Hartley..may give me a Hip, and call out, Prithee, friend, do not think to slip so easily by me.
1827 W. Hone Every-day Bk. 12 To toss off the glass, and huzza after the ‘hip! hip! hip!’ of the toast giver.
1836 T. Hood Coming of Age in Comic Ann. 89 No flummery then from flowery lips, No three times three and hip-hip-hips!
1849 tr. Aristophanes in Classical Museum 6 86 With a hip and a whoop, and a hip-hip-whoop, I call..Come trip it.
1906 Blackwoods' Edinb. Mag. Feb. 227/2 The pause was filled by the cheers of the crowd led by the ‘Hip-hip-hip!’ of Count Bunker.
1945 Ensian (University of Michigan) 201/2 Not a few ‘Hip-Hip's’ should be whooped off for this swell Junior staff which has worked tirelessly..for so long.
2011 Blade (Toledo, Ohio) (Nexis) 21 Aug. So for now, the Chrysler deal gets a ‘hip-hip’. The ‘hooray’ will have to wait awhile longer.
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