Crossword clues for hipped
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hipped \hipped\ adj.
having hips; or, having hips of a specified type; -- used in combination; as, wide-hipped. [WordNet sense 1]
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(Architecture) peaked and having sloping ends rather than gables; -- of roofs; as, a hipped roof has sloping ends rather than gables. [WordNet sense 2]
Syn: hip-roofed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"having hips," c.1500, past participle adjective; see hip (n.1)). In architecture from 1823.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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Having hips or a feature resembling hips. Etymology 2
v
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(en-pasthip) Etymology 3
1 Aware, informed. 2 (context with ''on'' English) Interested. v
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(en-pasthip) Etymology 4
a. depressed.
WordNet
Usage examples of "hipped".
Her heart danced wildly for just a moment as she watched the lean hipped, lanky man head her way.
At least six feet, four inches, muscular, broad chested and narrow hipped, with powerful thighs and the most gorgeous damned legs she had ever seen.
And slowly, slowly, the last bubbles faded, and slowly, slowly, the struggles beneath Sharpe ceased, and slowly, slowly, Sharpe understood that he had scotched the beast and that Loup, his enemy, was dead and slowly, slowly, Sharpe eased away from the body tha floated up to the surface as he staggered, bloody and hurting, back to the western bank where Harper caught up with him and hurried him back into the shelter of a bullet hipped wall.
But when he got the water of life down the common sewer, he bullyragged so antiscripturally that the barney hipped and nabbed the rust.
At the top he paused, broad shouldered, narrow hipped and supple, looking at the large bed, like a white couch of state, with a profusion of snowy linen, amongst which the Padrona sat unpropped and bowed, her handsome, black-browed face bent over her chest.
But I'll bet you hipped him to something about Reynolds Loftis back around '43, '44 or so, and Gordean started collectin' hush money on it.
They read crime reports, got hipped to some joyriding spooks firing shotguns--lay the onus on them-- they figured the arresting officers would kill them, case closed.
All I noticed at the time was that it was a rather strange conglomeration of diapered brickwork and an array of mullioned and transomed windows, which suggested a Jacobean house, with a hipped roof and gleaming central cupola, which was more characteristic of the reign of Charles II.
Minnie complains nonstop like it's a sermon, or singing the blues with no music, a whining melodic midnight blue voice from deep in her throat as she bangs around the kitchen, heavy hipped in her ugly white uniform, its bulk exaggerated by the white nylon sweater she's wearing under it.
There was a good feeling to the house with its white cedar shingles, shutters, hipped roof, and Dutch dormers covered with reddish slates.