WordNet
n. the socket part of the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the innominate bone
Usage examples of "hip socket".
The bleeding had almost stopped, but the wound was like a band of stinging fire from hip socket to ankle bone.
The bleeding had almost stopped, but the wound was like a band of stinging fire from hip socket to ankle bone, and his eyes were misty as he worked, following the instructions which had been drilled into him since his first hunting trip.
The gator jerked its head this way and that, and Alvin felt his thigh bone pull hard away from the hip socket.
He began a new stack against the wall, leaving a space just wide enough to hold him, groaning as he felt the weight of the heavy bales grinding his hip socket.
Maybe the hip socket extracted stored waste, carbon dioxide and urine and fecal matter, for recycling.
His leg was nearly wrenched from its hip socket, and his guts lurched up into his mouth.
I didn't know if it was the orthodox manner or not, I had to do something, so I put one foot on the thing's hip socket, grabbed a riding light up near its shoulder blade and swarmed up its side.
There was no vulgarity in this hunger, any more than when a tiger cracks the hip socket to suck the marrow.
She moved her hand up to his thigh until she found where the transformed leg ended at his human hip socket.