Definition of hip

• n. - The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
• n. - 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.
• n. - In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
• v. t. - To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
• v. t. - To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
• v. t. - To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
• n. - The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina).
• interj. - Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!
• n. - Alt. of Hipps