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hipped

1

[ hipt ]

adjective

  1. having hips.
  2. having the hips as specified (usually used in combination):

    broad-hipped; narrow-hipped.

  3. (especially of livestock) having the hip injured or dislocated.
  4. Architecture. formed with a hip or hips, as a roof.


hipped

2

[ hipt ]

adjective

, Informal.
  1. greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed by on ):

    He's hipped on learning to play the tuba.

hipped

1

/ hɪpt /

adjective

    1. having a hip or hips
    2. ( in combination )

      low-hipped

      broad-hipped

  1. (esp of cows, sheep, reindeer, elk, etc) having an injury to the hip, such as a dislocation of the bones
  2. architect having a hip or hips See also hipped roof
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


hipped

2

/ hɪpt /

adjective

  1. old-fashioned.
    often postpositivefoll byon very enthusiastic (about)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hipped1

First recorded in 1500–10; hip 1 + -ed 3

Origin of hipped2

First recorded in 1915–20; hip 4 + -ed 3
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hipped1

C20: from hip 4
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Example Sentences

Our testers ranged from straight hipped to pear shaped, four foot eleven to five foot five, and sizes 4 to 16.

Oddly, they are in the “lizard-hipped,” and not the “bird-hipped,” dinosaur group.

It was Kathryn Bigelow who directed that, and she is who hipped me to PJ Harvey.

Slim-hipped and washboard-abbed, she showed a fair amount of midriff.

Not so upon those of the unhappy Dammit, who offered to bet the Devil his head that I was hipped.

The roofs are flat and tiled, and hipped back in an ungainly fashion even at the transepts.

She was a flat-hipped Englishwoman, with a cleft chin and enigmatic greenish eyes.

It stood on the upper side of Lockman Street and was built with a hipped or gamble roof.

Babes hung at the breasts of the women, and they were heavy-hipped with increase of the tribe.

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