Hip \Hip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Hipping.]

1. 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.

2. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).

3. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.

Hipped roof. See Hip roof, under Hip.

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Hip \Hip\, n. [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG. huf, G. h["u]fte, Dan. hofte, Sw. h["o]ft, Goth. hups; cf. Icel. huppr, and also Gr. ? the hollow above the hips of cattle, and Lith. kumpis ham.]

1. The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.

2. (Arch.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.

3. (Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord. --Waddell.

Hip bone (Anat.), the innominate bone; -- called also haunch bone and huckle bone.

Hip girdle (Anat.), the pelvic girdle.

Hip joint (Anat.), the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone.

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

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

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

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

Hip tile, a tile made to cover the hip of a roof.

To catch upon the hip, or To have on the hip, to have or get the advantage of; -- a figure probably derived from wresting. --Shak.

To smite hip and thigh, to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly. --Judg. xv. 8.

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Hip \Hip\, n. [OE. hepe, AS. he['o]pe; cf. OHG. hiufo a bramble bush.]

(Bot.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina). [Written also hop, hep.]

Hip tree (Bot.), the dog-rose.

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Hip \Hip\, interj. Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!

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Hip \Hip\, or Hipps \Hipps\, n. See Hyp, n. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)