hip

hip is a 3-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, interjection, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
2. noun. The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.
3. noun. In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
4. transitive verb. 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.
5. transitive verb. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
6. transitive verb. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
7. noun. The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina).
8. interjection. Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!
9. noun. Alt. of Hipps
10. noun. either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh
11. noun. the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum

    Synonyms: coxa

12. noun. the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates

    Synonyms: pelvis

13. noun. the fruit of a rose plant

    Synonyms: rosehip

14. noun. (architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof
15. adjective. informed about the latest trends

    Synonyms: hep

Synonyms

coxa, pelvis, rosehip, hep

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in hip:

ihp, iph, phi

Common word forms

hips, hiper, hiply, hipped, hipper, hipless, hipness, hippest, hipping

Words from these letters

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