hip
/hɪp/ noun B1- The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
- The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
- In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
- A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.
Plural hips
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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.
The Count sprang to his feet, and his hand involuntarily moved back to his hip-pocket.
“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.”
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.
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