hip : Idioms & Phrases

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hip bath

  • noun a bathtub in which your buttocks and hips are immersed as if you were sitting in a chair and you bathe in a sitting position
    sitz bath.
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Hip bone

  • (Anat.), the innominate bone; called also haunch bone and huckle bone.
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hip boot

  • noun a very high boot; used especially for fishing
    thigh boot.
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Hip girdle

  • (Anat.), the pelvic girdle.
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Hip joint

  • noun the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum
    hip; coxa; articulatio coxae.
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  • (Anat.), the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone.
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Hip knob

  • (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge.
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Hip molding

  • (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing.
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hip pad

  • noun protective garment consisting of a pad worn by football and hockey players
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hip pocket

  • noun a pocket in rear of trousers
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Hip rafter

  • (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof.
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hip roof

  • noun a roof having sloping ends as well as sloping sides
    hip roof.
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Hip roof, Hipped roof

  • (Arch.), a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See Hip, n., 2., and Hip, v. t., 3.
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hip socket

  • noun the socket part of the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the innominate bone
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Hip tile

  • noun a tile shaped so as to cover the hip of a hip roof
    hipped tile.
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  • a tile made to cover the hip of a roof.
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hip to

  • adjective satellite informed about the latest trends
    hip; hep.
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Hip tree

  • (Bot.), the dog-rose.
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hip-hop

  • noun an urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city
  • noun genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
    rap music; rap.
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hip-length

  • adjective extending to or just over the hips
    hiplength.
    • a hiplength jacket
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hip-roofed

Hip"-roofed` adjective
Definitions
  1. Having a hip roof.
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Hipped roof

  • noun a roof having sloping ends as well as sloping sides
    hip roof.
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  • . See Hip roof, under Hip.
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rose hip

  • noun the fruit of a rose plant
    hip; rosehip.
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To catch upon the hip, ∨ To have on the hip

  • to have or get the advantage of; a figure probably derived from wresting. Shak.
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To smite hip and thigh

  • to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly. Judg. xv. 8.
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