hip
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Is hip a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (anatomy) The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
2. (slang, possibly dated) A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.Examples: "Ike explained to me that the Mexican government issued permits to hips allowing them a definite quantity of morphine per month at wholesale prices."datedpossiblyslang
verb (English)
1. (chiefly sports) To use one's hips to bump into someone.
2. (wrestling) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
adj (English)
1. (slang) Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy.Examples: "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."; "Everybody's saying that / Hell's the hippest way to go / Well, I don't think so / But I'm gonna take a look around it, though"; "“Saturday Night” has an explicitly hip, cynical outlook, coupled with an impressive amount of freedom."Synonyms: cool, groovyslang
verb (English)
1. (transitive, slang) To inform, to make knowledgeable.Examples: "No doubt, too, Sand must have hipped him quietly in a whisper somewhere what was happening with the lover"; "She's a volunteer, hipped on civil rights, another do-gooder, evidently with a private pile since she takes no pay"; "She went ape over Chris. She'd go downtown and come home with shopping bags loaded with fine dresses and underclothes for herself and her sisters. Later she hipped Chris to boosting"slangtransitive
noun (English)
1. (British) Acronym of Home Information Pack.Britishabbreviationacronymalt-of
2. (travel industry) Acronym of Higher Intermediate Point.abbreviationacronymalt-of
3. (music) Acronym of historically informed performance.abbreviationacronymalt-of
Definition source: Wiktionary