hipped
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Adjective
hipped (comparative more hipped, superlative most hipped)
- Having hips or a feature resembling hips.
- hipped roof
- Having hips of a specific kind.
- a wide-hipped woman
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From hip (verb).
Etymology 3
See hip (Etymology 3)
Adjective
hipped (comparative more hipped, superlative most hipped)
- (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
- (slang, with on) Interested.
Adjective
hipped (comparative more hipped, superlative most hipped)
- (archaic) Depressed.
- Antonym: unhipped
- 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter XXVII, in Barnaby Rudge:
- 'You will be hipped, Haredale, you will be miserable, melancholy, utterly wretched.'
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