hipped

English

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Etymology 1

From hip (“anatomy sense”) +‎ -ed.

Adjective

hipped (comparative more hipped, superlative most hipped)

1. Having hips or a feature resembling hips.

   hipped roof

2. Having hips of a specific kind.

   a wide-hipped woman

Derived terms

• hipped roof
• swivel-hipped

 

Translations

having or resembling hips

having hips of specific kind

• Finnish: -lanteinen

Etymology 2

From hip (verb).

Verb

hipped

1. simple past and past participle of hip

Etymology 3

See hip (Etymology 3)

Verb

hipped

1. simple past and past participle of hip

Adjective

hipped (comparative more hipped, superlative most hipped)

1. (slang) Aware, informed.
   • 1993, Christopher Hitchens, For the sake of argument: essays and minority reports, page 200:

     If I admitted, though, to being a little hipped on the subject of Trotsky, I could sometimes gain an indulgent if flickering attention

2. (slang, with on) Interested.

Etymology 4

Compare hippish.
Alternative spelling of hypped.

Adjective

hipped (comparative more hipped, superlative most hipped)

1. (archaic) Depressed.

   Antonym: unhipped

   • 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter XXVII, in Barnaby Rudge:

     'You will be hipped, Haredale, you will be miserable, melancholy, utterly wretched.'

   • 1894, Stanley J. Weyman, chapter II, in Under the Red Robe:

     'I had seen more of the quiet and peace of the country than had been my share since boyhood, and for that reason, or because I had no great taste for the task before me - the task now so imminent - I felt a little hipped.'