hipped

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

  1. having hips; or having hips as specified (usually in combination)“broad-hipped”
  2. (of a roof) sloping on all sides“a hipped roof has sloping ends rather than gables”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Hipped \Hipped\, Hippish \Hip"pish\, a. [From 5th Hip.] Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

When we are hipped or in high spirits. --R. L. Stevenson. [1913 Webster]

hipped \hipped\ adj.

1.having hips; or, having hips of a specified type; -- used in combination; as, wide-hipped. [WordNet sense 1] [WordNet 1.5]

2.(Architecture) peaked and having sloping ends rather than gables; -- of roofs; as, a hipped roof has sloping ends rather than gables. [WordNet sense 2]

Syn: hip-roofed. [WordNet 1.5]

Hip \Hip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hipped; p. pr. & vb. n. 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. [1913 Webster]

2.To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock). [1913 Webster]

3.To make with a hip or hips, as a roof. [1913 Webster]

Hipped roof. See Hip roof, under Hip. [1913 Webster]

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