HIPPED Definition & Meaning

hipped

[ hipt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

having hips.
having the hips as specified (usually used in combination):
broad-hipped; narrow-hipped.
(especially of livestock) having the hip injured or dislocated.
Architecture. formed with a hip or hips, as a roof.

hipped

[ hipt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Informal.

greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed by on ):
He's hipped on learning to play the tuba.

hipped

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adjective

1. having a hip or hips
2. ( in combination )
  low-hipped
  broad-hipped
(esp of cows, sheep, reindeer, elk, etc) having an injury to the hip, such as a dislocation of the bones
architect having a hip or hips See also hipped roof

hipped

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adjective

old-fashioned.
often postpositivefoll byon very enthusiastic (about)

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of hipped¹

First recorded in 1500–10; hip ¹ + -ed ³

Origin of hipped²

First recorded in 1915–20; hip ⁴ + -ed ³

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of hipped¹

C20: from hip ⁴

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Yet tucked among the encouragements to get “hipped to oneness” and “train the other sight” is the dark glimmer of where the cult-religion line blurs.

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Luckily, other people in his life hipped him to cool bands.

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The photographs showed fire within the house, just behind an entrance portico that includes rectangular brick or stone columns supporting a hipped roof.

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The top story is clad in stucco with an overhanging hipped roof.

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Valley Village came out of a rib of North Hollywood, which hipped itself up as NoHo, but was born as Lankershim, for an early Valley wheat grower whose son-in-law was named Van Nuys.

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