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# hip

noun (a hip, hips); adjective (hip, hipper, hippest — informal); exclamation (hip, hip, hooray)

«hip» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The part of your body on each side where your leg joins your waist. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hip/#m1)
2. The hip joint, the ball-and-socket joint where the thighbone meets the pelvis. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hip/#m2)
3. (informal adjective) Fashionable and cool. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hip/#m3)
4. A red berry of the wild rose (rose hip). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hip/#m4)
5. (hip, hip, hooray) Words people shout to cheer someone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hip/#m5)

### In the lessons

In science: the hip is a ball-and-socket joint, letting the leg move in many directions. In PE and dance: «hands on hips», «move your hips». In everyday life old people sometimes need a «new hip» (hip replacement). Phrases: «hands on hips», «hip-hop», «hip, hip, hooray».

### Examples

- Put your hands on your hips. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hip/#x1)
- Grandma had an operation on her hip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hip/#x2)
- The hip is a ball-and-socket joint. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hip/#x3)
- She carried the baby on her hip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hip/#x4)
- Three cheers for the winner: hip, hip, hooray! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hip/#x5)
- We made syrup from rose hips. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hip/#x6)
- My cousin thinks he's really hip with his new trainers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hip/#x7)
- I left the skin of my hips behind me, but I came out. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hip/#x8)

### Note

Countable body part: one hip, two hips. Adjective «hip» = cool (informal, slightly old-fashioned): hipper, hippest. Hip-hop is a type of music.

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Cutting the garments to the hips was a great insult to David's messengers. In Samson's story, "hip and thigh" means a total, crushing defeat. In the primary lessons: In science: the hip is a ball-and-socket joint, letting the leg move in many directions. In PE and dance: «hands on hips», «move your hips». In everyday life old people sometimes need a «new hip» (hip replacement). Phrases: «hands on hips», «hip-hop», «hip, hip, hooray».

### Examples

- So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their hips, and sent them away. (Writings 1CH.19.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hip/#x1)
- And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam. (Prophets JDG.15.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hip/#x2)

### Note

Countable body part: one hip, two hips. Adjective «hip» = cool (informal, slightly old-fashioned): hipper, hippest. Hip-hop is a type of music.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «hip» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hip/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«hip» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/hip.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «hip» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hip/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«hip» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/hip.html) on Mova free.