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English
The bones of a human hip .
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English hipe hupe Old English hype Proto-Germanic *hupiz Dutch heup Low German Huop German Hüfte Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- Welsh cysgu ( “ to sleep ” ) , Latin cubāre ( “ to lie ” ) , Ancient Greek κύβος ( kúbos , “ hollow in the hips ” ) , Albanian sup ( “ shoulder ” ) , Sanskrit शुप्ति ( śúpti , “ shoulder ” ) ), from *ḱew- ( “ to bend ” ) . More at high
Noun
hip (plural hips
( anatomy ) pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue .
The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes .
In a bridge truss , the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord .
1887 John Alexander Low Waddell , General Specifications for Highway Bridges of Iron and Steel :in all bridges preference will be given to designs having struts for hip verticals
( slang , possibly dated ) drug addict , especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.
1953 William S. Burroughs ], Junkie Ike explained to me that the Mexican government issued permits to hips allowing them a definite quantity of morphine per month at wholesale prices.
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Translations
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Abkhaz: ауаҭәа ( awatʷa )
Afrikaans: heup (af)
Albanian: këllk (sq) m
Apache:
Western Apache: bikʼai
Arabic: وَرِك m ( warik )
Egyptian Arabic: ورك m ( werk ) , خصر m ( ḵaṣr )
Armenian: ազդր (hy) ( azdr ) , ( rare ) զիստ (hy) ( zist ) , ( colloquial ) բուդ (hy) ( bud )
Asturian: cadera (ast) f
Awutu: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: bud omba (az) , yanbız
Basque: aldaka
Belarusian: сцягно́ n ( scjahnó ) , бядро́ (be) n ( bjadró )
Bhojpuri: कूल्हा ( kūlhā )
Bidayuh:
Bau Bidayuh: kubab
Bikol:
Central Bikol: iksan
Bulgarian: бедро́ (bg) n ( bedró ) , тазобедрена става f ( tazobedrena stava )
Catalan: maluc (ca) m
Chechen: варе ( vare )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 髖 / 髋 (zh) ( kuān )
Coptic: ⲕⲉⲣ m ( ker )
Cornish: klun f
Czech: kyčel (cs) f
Danish: hofte (da) c
Dhivehi: އުރު ( uru )
Dutch: heup (nl) f
Elfdalian: myörn m
Esperanto: kokso
Faroese: mjødn f
Finnish: lonkka (fi) , lanne (fi)
French: hanche (fr) f
Galician: cadril (gl) m caeira f cadeira (gl) f anca (gl) f illarga (gl) f
Gamilaraay: baa
Georgian: ბარძაყი ( barʒaq̇i ) , თეძო ( teʒo )
German: Hüfte (de) f
Gothic: 𐌷𐌿𐍀𐍃 ( hups )
Greek: ισχίο (el) n ( ischío )
Ancient Greek: ἰσχίον n ( iskhíon )
Haitian Creole: anch ranch
Hebrew: יָרֵךְ (he) f ( yarekh )
Hindi: कूल्हा (hi) m ( kūlhā )
Hmong:
White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: csípő (hu)
Icelandic: mjöðm (is) f
Ido: hancho (io)
Indonesian: pinggang (id) , pinggul (id)
Ingrian: bedra
Ingush: ха ( xa )
Irish: alt an chromáin m cromán m corróg f
Italian: anca (it) f
Japanese: 腰 (ja) ( koshi )
Kapampangan: papaluan papalwan
Kaurna: miti
Khmer: កណ្ដៀតក្អម (km) ( kɑndiət k’ɑɑm )
Korean: 허리 (ko) ( heori )
Ladin: uf m
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latgalian: lytka f
Latin: coxa f
Latvian: gurns m
Lushootseed: xʷʔiləlugʷəb
Luxembourgish: Hëft f
Macedonian: колк (mk) m ( kolk )
Malay: pinggul (ms) , koksa
Malayalam: ഇടുപ്പ് (ml) ( iṭuppŭ )
Mauritian Creole: laans
Melanau:
Central Melanau: kabut pupoh
Middle English: hipe
Mongolian: ташаа (mn) ( tašaa ) , гуя (mn) ( guja )
Navajo: akʼaiʼ
Nepali: नितम्ब ( nitamba )
Norman: hanque f ( Jersey )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hofte (no) m or f mjødm m or f
Nynorsk: hofte f mjødm f
Occitan: anca (oc) f
Ojibwe: ( my hip ) ninoogan
Old Church Slavonic: бедра f ( bedra )
Old English: hype m
Old Norse: mjǫðm f
Pennsylvania German: Hift f
Persian: کفل (fa) ( kafal )
Dari: خاصره (fa) ( xâsera )
Plautdietsch: Hoft f
Polish: biodro (pl) n
Portuguese: quadril (pt) m anca (pt) f
Rapa Nui: tumu
Réunion Creole French: ans
Romanian: șold (ro)
Russian: бедро́ (ru) n ( bedró )
Santali: ᱰᱩᱠᱮ ( ḍuke )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кук m
Latin: kuk (sh) m
Slovak: bedro (sk) n
Spanish: cadera (es) f anca (es) f cuadril (es) m rengadero m
Sranan Tongo: dyonku
Swahili: unyonga nyonga (sw)
Swedish: höft (sv) c
Tagalog: balakang (tl) , bugnit
Tarifit: tameṣṣaṭṭ f
Tatar: бот (tt) ( bot )
Tewa: púsen
Thai: สะโพก (th) ( sà-pôok )
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Tooro: enyugunyu class 9
Turkish: kalça (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: قالچه ( kalça ) , كفل ( kefel ) , ورك ( verek )
Tuvan: бел кежи ( bel keji ) , бел кеш ( bel keş ) , бел кежик ( bel kejik )
Twi Akan: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: ку́льша f ( kúlʹša ) , стегно́ n ( stehnó , literally “ thigh ” ) , бедро́ (uk) n ( bedró )
Vietnamese: hông (vi)
Volapük: hip (vo)
Welsh: clun (cy) f
Woiwurrung: muluñ
Yiddish: לענדן f pl ( lendn )
Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
Verb
hip (third-person singular simple present hips present participle hipping simple past and past participle hipped
( chiefly sports ) ( wrestling ) cross-buttock ").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.
To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
Etymology 2
From Middle English hepe heppe hipe Old English hēope Proto-Germanic *heupǭ Dutch joop German Hiefe Faroese hjúpa Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- ( “ briar, thorn ” ) (compare Old Prussian kaāubri ( “ thorn ” ) , Lithuanian kaubrė̃ ( “ heap ” ) ).
Rose hips .
Noun
hip (plural hips
The fruit of a rose .
Synonym: rosehip c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele] , The Old Wiues Tale. [ … ] [ … ] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, [ … ] 1595 , →OCLC [line 175-178] :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.c. 1605–1608 (date written)William Shakespeare , “The Life of Tymon of Athens ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , and Ed[ ward] Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC [ Act IV, scene iii] :The oaks bear mast, the briars scarlet hips ;
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
Unknown or disputed. Probably a variant of hep [ 1] Wolof hepi ( “ to see ” ) or hipi ( “ to open one’s eyes ” ) .[ 2] hip [ 3] [ 1]
Adjective
hip (comparative hipper superlative hippest
( slang , dated ) Aware , informed , up-to-date , trendy . [from early 20th c., popularized in 1960s]
1965 Cavalier :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.
1971 Joni Mitchell , “Blue”, in Blue :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
1975 October 27, Jeff Greenfield , “Ragged but Funny”, in New York 43 , New York, N.Y.: New York Media , →ISSN →OCLC 65 “Saturday Night” has an explicitly hip , cynical outlook, coupled with an impressive amount of freedom.
1985 Playboy [1] the original on 19 March 2019 :One of the saints in my life is this woman named Imogene Hill, who was a fourth-grade teacher who taught this advanced class. She got hip to my whole situation in about a month and kindled a passion in me for learning things.
2012 December 26, John Branch , “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times [2] The New York Times Company , →ISSN →OCLC the original on 14 November 2013 :Rudolph promoted Stevens Pass with restless zeal. In seven years there, he helped turn a relatively small, roadside ski area into a hip destination.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: hipp → Swedish: hipp
Translations
aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy
Verb
hip (third-person singular simple present hips present participle hipping simple past and past participle hipped
( transitive , slang ) 1958 Jack Kerouac , The Subterraneans 90 :No doubt, too, Sand must have hipped him quietly in a whisper somewhere what was happening with the lover
1964 Rex Stout , A Right to Die 78 :She's a volunteer, hipped on civil rights, another do-gooder, evidently with a private pile since she takes no pay
1969 Iceberg Slim , Pimp , page 223 :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
1983 August 20, Mary Frances Gonzales, “Come Together”, in Gay Community News , volume 11 , number 6, page 5:A friend just hipped me to your rag and its [sic been a totally beautiful experience! Presently I'm imprisoned at the California Institute for Women and would like to receive my own issues of GCN. 2009 Pynchon and comics :The guy hips himself to so many things.
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See also
Etymology 4
Interjection
hip
An exclamation to invoke a united cheer: hip hip hooray .
Synonym: hip hip
References
↑ 1.0 1.1 “hip, adj. ”, in OED Online Oxford University Press , March 2018. ^ * Major, Clarence (1994 ), “hip; hipping”, in Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang , Puffin Books, →ISBN page 234
^ “hip adj. ”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang Jonathon Green , 2016–present.
Anagrams
Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *skūpa Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- ( “ to push ” ) . Compare German schieben ( “ to push ” ) , English shove Lithuanian skùbti ( “ to hurry ” ) .
Verb
hip (aorist hipa participle hipur
to get on , ride , straddle
to rise , go up , climb into
Conjugation
Standard Albanian conjugation of hip
participle
hipur
gerund
duke hipur
infinitive
për të hipur
singular
plural
1st pers.
2nd pers.
3rd pers.
1st pers.
2nd pers.
3rd pers.
indicative
present
hip hip hip hipim hipni hipin
imperfect
hipja hipje hipte hipnim hipnit hipnin
aorist
hipa hipe hipi hipëm hipët hipën
perfect
kam hipur
ke hipur
ka hipur
kemi hipur
keni hipur
kanë hipur
past perfect
kisha hipur
kishe hipur
kishte hipur
kishim hipur
kishit hipur
kishin hipur
aorist II
pata hipur
pate hipur
pati hipur
patëm hipur
patët hipur
patën hipur
future1
do të hip
do të hipësh
do të hipë
do të hipim
do të hipni
do të hipin
future perfect2
do të kem hipur
do të kesh hipur
do të ketë hipur
do të kemi hipur
do të keni hipur
do të kenë hipur
subjunctive
present
të hip
të hipësh
të hipë
të hipim
të hipni
të hipin
imperfect
të hipja
të hipje
të hipte
të hipnim
të hipnit
të hipnin
perfect
të kem hipur
të kesh hipur
të ketë hipur
të kemi hipur
të keni hipur
të kenë hipur
past perfect
të kisha hipur
të kishe hipur
të kishte hipur
të kishim hipur
të kishit hipur
të kishin hipur
conditional1, 2
imperfect
do të hipja
do të hipje
do të hipte
do të hipnim
do të hipnit
do të hipnin
past perfect
do të kisha hipur
do të kishe hipur
do të kishte hipur
do të kishim hipur
do të kishit hipur
do të kishin hipur
optative
present
hipsha hipsh hiptë hipshim hipshi hipshin
perfect
paça hipur
paç hipur
pastë hipur
paçim hipur
paçit hipur
paçin hipur
admirative
present
hipkam hipke hipka hipkemi hipkeni hipkan
imperfect
hipkësha hipkëshe hipkësh hipkëshim hipkëshit hipkëshin
perfect
paskam hipur
paske hipur
paska hipur
paskemi hipur
paskeni hipur
paskan hipur
past perfect
paskësha hipur
paskëshe hipur
paskësh hipur
paskëshim hipur
paskëshit hipur
paskëshin hipur
imperative
present
—
hip —
—
hipni —
1 ) indicative future identical with conditional present 2 ) indicative future perfect identical with conditional perfect
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Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from American English hip
Adjective
hip (neuter hipt plural and definite singular attributive hippe
( colloquial ) modern , in , fashionable , trendy
Inflection
1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English hip
Pronunciation
Adjective
hip (comparative hiper superlative hipst
genteel ( stylish, elegant ) fashionable ( characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style )
Synonyms
German
Etymology
Borrowed from English hip
Pronunciation
Adjective
hip (strong nominative masculine singular hipper comparative hipper superlative am hippsten or am hipsten
( informal ) hip , trendy
Synonym: trendig 2022 August 13, Fabian Schroer, “Zwangsräumungen wegen Brandschutzmängeln: Rausschmiss ohne Warnung”, in Die Tageszeitung : taz[3] →ISSN the original on 13 August 2022 :Außerdem plant die Stadt ein hippes Innenstadtquartier mit Wohnungen für 4.500 Menschen. Erklärtes Ziel des Großprojekts: „Hochfeld zu beleben.“ (please add an English translation of this quotation) 2025 September 26, Ulrike von Leszczynski, “Komplizierte Frage: Du oder Sie?”, in Westfalen-Blatt 225 , published 27 September 2025, page WB08 :Bestellen hippe junge Großstädter in Berlin ihren Hafermilch-Kaffee selbstverständlich per du, weichen andere Gäste auf ein „Habt Ihr?“ aus, um das Siezen des Baristas im coolen Ambiente zu umschiffen. (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
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Further reading
“hip ” in Duden online
“hip ”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [4]
Middle English
Noun
hip
( Late Middle English ) alternative form of hipe
Slovene
Pronunciation
Noun
hȋp m inan
moment
Declension
Tagalog
Etymology
Contraction of hihip
Pronunciation
Noun
hip (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜉ᜔ ( obsolete )
alternative form of hihip
Derived terms
Further reading
Serrano Laktaw, Pedro (1914 ), Diccionario Tagálog-hispano Tagalog–Spanish Dictionary →OCLC page 328
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English hipe Old English hype Proto-West Germanic *hupi
Pronunciation
Noun
hip
thigh
References
Charles Vallancey (1788 ), “Memoir of the Language, Manners and Customs of an Anglo-Saxon Colony Settled in the Baronies of Forth and Bargie, in the County of Wexford, Ireland, in 1167, 1168 and 1169.”, in The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy [5] 31
