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Definition of Hip

Hip

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

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.

In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.

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

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

The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina).

Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!

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Hip Quotations

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
John Lennon

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
Raymond Chandler

Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.
Jeff Foxworthy

Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image.
Carrie Underwood

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Norman Mailer

Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.
Bo Jackson

I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy.
Dennis Miller

I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'
Tyra Banks

I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.
Tyra Banks

Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulder; something that cowls in the front, drapes low in the back, that's sexy.
Rachel Zoe

But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
Sally Field

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
Ice T

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
Ice T

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.
Justin Timberlake

You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.
Afrika Bambaataa

Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.
Afrika Bambaataa

If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.
Afrika Bambaataa

How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.
Afrika Bambaataa

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
Afrika Bambaataa

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.
Afrika Bambaataa

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.
Evel Knievel

And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
Gary Oldman

We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life.
Jim Capaldi

Country's hip; it's cool music.
Ricky Skaggs

We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
Sammy Hagar

I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.
Harrison Ford

A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.
John Mellencamp

I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.
Christopher Meloni

Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.
Nicole Richie

I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven't been that hip since.
Leo Kottke

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Hip Translations

hip in Afrikaans is heup
hip in Danish is hofte
hip in Dutch is heup
hip in Finnish is lonkka
hip in French is hanche, sciatique
hip in Italian is anca
hip in Norwegian is nype, hofte
hip in Portuguese is quadril
hip in Spanish is cadera

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