EGAVE

hip

About 9.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
  2. noun The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
  3. noun In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
  4. noun A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.
  5. verb To use one's hips to bump into someone.
  6. verb To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
  7. verb 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.
  8. verb To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.

Similar words

pelvis hip joint pelvic girdle pelvic arch hep coxa informed articulatio coxae hip to arm

Often followed by

and joint hop replacement fracture to is pocket arthroplasty

Word family

hep hiply hipped hipper hippest hipping hips

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