Hip, noun [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG. huf, G. hüfte, Dan. hofte, Sw. höft, Goth. hups; cf. Icel. huppr, and also Gr. the hollow above the hips of cattle, and Lith. kumpis ham.]

1. The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.

2. (Arch.) 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.

3. (Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord. Waddell.

Hip bone (Anat.), the innominate bone; – called also haunch bone and huckle bone.

Hip girdle (Anat.), the pelvic girdle.

Hip joint (Anat.), the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone.

Hip knob (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge.

Hip molding (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing.

Hip rafter (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof.

Hip roof

Hipped roof (Arch.), a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See Hip, noun, 2., and Hip, transitive verb,

Hip tile

a tile made to cover the hip of a roof.

To catch upon the hip
or
To have on the hip

to have or get the advantage of; – a figure probably derived from wresting. Shak.

To smite hip and thigh

to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly. Judg. xv. 8.

Hip, transitive verb [imperfect or past participle Hipped; present participle or verbal noun Hipping.]

1. 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.

2. To throw (one’s adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).

3. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.

Hipped roof See Hip roof, under Hip.

Hip, noun [OE. hepe, AS. heópe; cf. OHG. hiufo a bramble bush.] (Bot.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina); called also rose hip. [Written also hop, hep.]

Hip tree (Bot.), the dog-rose.

Hip, interjection Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!

-- Websters 1913