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hipped
1[ hipt ]
hipped
2[ hipt ]
adjective
- 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
- having a hip or hips
- ( in combination )
low-hipped
broad-hipped
- (esp of cows, sheep, reindeer, elk, etc) having an injury to the hip, such as a dislocation of the bones
- architect having a hip or hips See also hipped roof
hipped
2/ hɪpt /
adjective
- old-fashioned.often postpositivefoll byon very enthusiastic (about)
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of hipped1
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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