hip

noun5

1. •
   the rounded, bony part of the body just above where either leg begins
2. •
   The fruit of a rose.

   • 1. BROTHER. […] What doo you gather there? OLD MAN. Hips and Hawes, and stickes and strawes, and thinges that I gather on the ground my sonne. — 1590
3. •
   The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
4. •
   In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.

   • in all bridges preference will be given to designs having struts for hip verticals — 1887
5. •
   (slang, old-fashioned) A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.

   • Ike explained to me that the Mexican government issued permits to hips allowing them a definite quantity of morphine per month at wholesale prices. — 1953

verb5

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

   • No doubt, too, Sand must have hipped him quietly in a whisper somewhere what was happening with the lover — 1958
2. •
   To use one's hips to bump into someone.
3. •
   To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
4. •
   To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
5. •
   To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.

adjective1

1. •
   (slang) Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy.

   • I am also starting a folk-entourage school where you can go into gladitorial training to hang out in hip crowds with budding young folk stars. — 1965

exclamation1

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

noun4

1. •
   Acronym of historically informed performance.
2. •
   (UK) Acronym of Home Information Pack.
3. •
   Initialism of hot isostatic pressing
4. •
   Acronym of Higher Intermediate Point.