HIP (hipper, hippest)

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Irregular inflected forms: hipper    , hippest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does hip mean? 

• HIP (noun)
  The noun HIP has 5 senses:

1. either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh

2. the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates

3. the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum

4. (architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof

5. the fruit of a rose plant

  Familiarity information: HIP used as a noun is common.

• HIP (adjective)
  The adjective HIP has 1 sense:

1. informed about the latest trends

  Familiarity information: HIP used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("hip" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Meronyms (parts of "hip"):

arteria glutes; gluteal artery (branches of the internal iliac artery that supply the hip joint and gluteal region)

Holonyms ("hip" is a part of...):

body; torso; trunk (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

hip; pelvic arch; pelvic girdle; pelvis

Hypernyms ("hip" is a kind of...):

girdle (an encircling or ringlike structure)

Meronyms (parts of "hip"):

os pubis; pubic bone; pubis (one of the three sections of the hipbone; together these two bones form the front of the pelvis)

articulatio coxae; coxa; hip; hip joint (the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum)

sacrum (wedge-shaped bone consisting of five fused vertebrae forming the posterior part of the pelvis; its base connects with the lowest lumbar vertebra and its tip with the coccyx)

ischial bone; ischium; os ischii (one of the three sections of the hipbone; situated below the ilium)

ilium (the upper and widest of the three bones making up the hipbone)

hipbone; innominate bone (large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis)

coccyx; tail bone (the end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes)

Holonyms ("hip" is a part of...):

appendicular skeleton (the part of the skeleton that includes the pectoral girdle and the pelvic girdle and the upper and lower limbs)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

articulatio coxae; coxa; hip; hip joint

Hypernyms ("hip" is a kind of...):

articulatio spheroidea; ball-and-socket joint; cotyloid joint; enarthrodial joint; enarthrosis; spheroid joint (a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone)

Meronyms (parts of "hip"):

ischial bone; ischium; os ischii (one of the three sections of the hipbone; situated below the ilium)

Holonyms ("hip" is a part of...):

thigh (the part of the leg between the hip and the knee)

hip; pelvic arch; pelvic girdle; pelvis (the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("hip" is a kind of...):

exterior angle; external angle (the supplement of an interior angle of a polygon)

Domain category:

architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings)

Holonyms ("hip" is a part of...):

hip roof; hipped roof (a roof having sloping ends as well as sloping sides)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The fruit of a rose plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

hip; rose hip; rosehip

Hypernyms ("hip" is a kind of...):

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Holonyms ("hip" is a part of...):

rose; rosebush (any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses)

• HIP (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informed about the latest trends

Synonyms:

hep; hip; hip to

Similar:

informed (having much knowledge or education)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

A disorder characterized by marked discomfort sensation on the lateral side of the body in the region below the ribs and above the hip.

(Flank Pain, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Painful sensation in the region below the ribs and above the hip.

(Flank Pain, NCI Thesaurus)

The longest and largest bone of the skeleton, it is situated between the hip and the knee.

(Murine Femur, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

My publicist once had a major operation on her hip during a Mercury retrograde period.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Your bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside some of your bones, such as your hip and thigh bones.

(Myelodysplastic Syndromes, NIH National Cancer Institute)

A procedure in which a small sample of bone with bone marrow inside it is removed, usually from the hip bone.

(Bone marrow biopsy, NCI Dictionary)

The 22-mm scaffolds were shaped over a mold to mimic a hip joint surface and attached to a nylon mesh to maintain their shape.

(Stem cells grown on scaffold mimic hip joint cartilage, NIH)

The region on either side of the body that extends from the last rib to the hip.

(Flank, NCI Thesaurus)

They are one cause of falls and fall-related injuries, such as hip fracture.

(Balance Problems, NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

Bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside some of your bones, such as your hip and thigh bones.

(Bone Marrow Diseases, NIH)