The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hip \Hip\, n. [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG. huf, G. h["u]fte, Dan. hofte, Sw. h["o]ft, Goth. hups; cf. Icel. huppr, and also Gr. ? the hollow above the hips of cattle, and Lith. kumpis ham.]
The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
(Arch.) 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.
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(Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
--Waddell.Hip bone (Anat.), the innominate bone; -- called also haunch bone and huckle bone.
Hip girdle (Anat.), the pelvic girdle.
Hip joint (Anat.), the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone.
Hip knob (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge.
Hip molding (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing.
Hip rafter (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof.
Hip roof, Hipped roof (Arch.), a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See Hip, n., 2., and Hip, v. t., 3.
Hip tile, a tile made to cover the hip of a roof.
To catch upon the hip, or To have on the hip, to have or get the advantage of; -- a figure probably derived from wresting.
--Shak.To smite hip and thigh, to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly.
--Judg. xv. 8.
WordNet
n. the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum [syn: hip, coxa, articulatio coxae]
Usage examples of "hip joint".
He learned to break the shoulder when the beast stood broadside, dropping him as though he had been struck by lightning, or to take the hip-shot as he ran choking in the dust cloud behind the herd, shattering the hip joint and pinning the beast for an unhurried coup-de-grice.
Instead lowline him and shove a foot of cold steel through groin right into his hip joint.
It held and jarred him to the top of his head and in his hip joint.
The leg gave me a little trouble, but Minka had told me that I was walking on the best permanent-oil titanium alloy hip joint money could buy, so I let that thought console me.
By the time they finished scanning the body, they had found eighteen metal fragments, only two of which had any real size: one, an inch-long piece of twisted metal that had lodged in Riggio's hip joint.
The human might have been wearing armor so Stephen aimed at her hip joint, a weak point and almost as disabling as a heart shot anyway.
He took a spear in the hip joint and fought another hour with it sticking out of him, the point stuck in bone.
The acetabulum was instead the rounded concavity in the innominate bone that formed the hip joint in conjunction with the femur, which sounded like a jungle cat but was another bone.
The javelin Vascay had retrieved from a dead man's eye socket took him in the hip joint.
Jayme cried out as her leg was practically pulled from her hip joint.