Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having hips, especially of a given kind. Often used in combination.
- adjective Interested or preoccupied to a great degree.
- adjective Melancholy; depressed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the hip sprained or dislocated.
- Rendered melancholy; melancholy; mopish. Also spelled
hipt and hypt. - Having hips: said of a roof, or of one end of a roof. A roof may be hipped at one end and gabled at the other.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective colloq. Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See
hyppish . - adjective having hips; or, having hips of a specified type; -- used in combination.
- adjective (Architecture) peaked and having sloping ends rather than gables; -- of roofs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
hips or a feature resembling hips. - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hip . - adjective
Depressed . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hip . - adjective Aware, informed.
- adjective with on Interested.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a roof) sloping on all sides
- adjective having hips; or having hips as specified (usually in combination)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"Lord love you!" said he at last, seeing me thus "hipped" -- "don't be downhearted -- don't be dashed afore you begin; we can't all be gen'uses -- it aren't to be expected, but some on us is a good deal better than most and that's something arter all.
The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915
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I'd never seen that use of "hipped" before; I knew it only as a synonym for "tired."
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In practicing the neglect of the sensations, one should not allow his mind to dwell on the possibility that he is overlooking something serious, but rather on the danger of his becoming "hipped," a prey to his own doubts and fears, and unable to accomplish anything in life beyond catering to his own morbid fancies.
Why Worry? George Lincoln Walton 1897
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He was a sort of 'hipped' character, and believed that he could not walk, if he were to try ever so much.
The Lighthouse 1859
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But he was very melancholy and Mrs. Hopkins declared to old Mrs. Twentyman that the young squire was "hipped," -- "along of his lady love," as she thought.
The American Senator Anthony Trollope 1848
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Sehwag let a couple go by, 'hipped' one away and then reverse swept him magnificently past point.
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Sehwag let a couple go by, 'hipped' one away and then reverse swept him magnificently past point.
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And if it were the last word I utter, all that happened over that has 'hipped' me more than anything. "
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Doris dreams of escape, of finding those she has loved and lost, of returning home to her motherland: England. rydra_wong first hipped me to Bernadine Evaristo, I am glad to see her published in the US. made a syn feed for her blog, bevaristo.
yay! rydra_wong 2009
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Earlier in the month the Schnitzel Truck threw competition to the wind, and hipped everyone to a brand new vendor hitting the scene called Frites N Meats.
chained_bear commented on the word hipped
"Morbidly depressed; low-spirited." --A Sea of Words
March 11, 2008
rolig commented on the word hipped
Nabokov has some interesting observations about the word hyp (which I assume this "hipped" is related to) in his commentary to Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Ch. 1, stanza xxxviii, where Pushkin diagnoses Onegin's boredom: "A malady . . . similar to the English spleen, / in short, the Russian khandra / was getting hold of him little by little." Nabokov has this to say:
"Handrá N.'s transliteration, 'chondria,' and spleen, 'hyp,' illustrate a neat division of linguistic labor on the part of two nations, both famed for ennui, the English choosing 'hypo' and the Russian 'chondria.' There is, of course, nothing especially or time-significant about hypochondria (in the initial large sense; and excluding the American connotation of maladie imaginaire). The spleen in England and ennui in France came into fashion about the middle of the seventeenth century, and throughout the next hundred years French innkeepers and Swiss mountain folk kept begging hypish Englishmen not to commit suicide on their premises or in their precipices—a drastic measure to which the endemic and more benign ennui did not lead."
March 11, 2008