Hip Definition
(slang) Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy [from early 20th c., popularized in 1960s]
- at a disadvantage
- to attack unsparingly; overwhelm with or as with blows
- to become (or be) informed or knowledgeable about
Other Word Forms of Hip
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Adjective
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Hip
- on the hip
- smite hip and thigh
- get (or be) hip to
Origin of Hip
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From Middle English hipe, hupe, from Old English hype, from Proto-Germanic *hupiz (compare Dutch heup, Low German Huop, German Hüfte), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeu̯bh₂- (compare Welsh cysgu ‘to sleep’, Latin cubāre (“to lie”), Ancient Greek κύβος (kýbos, “hollow in the hips”), Albanian sup (“shoulder”), Sanskrit śupti [Devanagari?] ‘id.’), from *keu-, *keu̯ə- (“to bend”). More at high.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English hepe, heppe, hipe, from Old English hēope, from Proto-Germanic *heupōn (compare Dutch joop, German Hiefe, dialectal Norwegian hjúpa 'briar'), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- 'briar, thorn' (compare Old Prussian kaāubri 'thorn', Lithuanian kaubrė̃ 'heap').
From Wiktionary
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Probably a variant of hep. Maybe from Wolof hepi (“to see”) or hipi (“to open one’s eyes”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English hipe from Old English hēope
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English from Old English hype
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Origin unknown
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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