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hip

/hɪp/ verb C2
  1. To use one's hips to bump into someone.
  2. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
  3. 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.
  4. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.

He/she/it hips · Past hipped · Past participle hipped · -ing form hipping

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Verb forms

Base form
hip
He/she/it
hips
Past
hipped
Past participle
hipped
-ing form
hipping

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The following Monday Anne surprised Marilla by coming down from her room with her basket of books on her arm and hip and her lips primmed up into a line of determination.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 126 · C1
The Count sprang to his feet, and his hand involuntarily moved back to his hip-pocket.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 37 · B2
“As long as I have my trousers I have a hip-pocket, and as long as I have my hip-pocket I have something in it.”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 187 · C1
Ten young descendants of Marius and the Gracchi, barefooted and out at elbows, with one hand resting on the hip and the other gracefully curved above the head, stared at the traveller, the post-chaise, and the horses; to these were added about fifty little vagabonds from the Papal States, who earned a pittance by diving into the Tiber at high water from the bridge of St.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1063 · C1

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