hipped

English

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Etymology 1

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
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Etymology 2

From hip (verb).

Verb

hipped

  1. simple past tense and past participle of hip

Etymology 3

See hip (Etymology 3)

Verb

hipped

  1. simple past tense 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.'
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