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[hip] / hɪp /


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Meanwhile, with Atkinson absent with a hip problem, Borthwick will need to field a new centre combination, meaning Fraser Dingwall or Max Ojomoh are in line to play at inside-centre.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

Women and patients who had experienced hip fractures appeared to show particularly strong associations between NBP treatment and reduced dementia risk.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

Nacua was sidelined for two games because of a hip injury and has been playing through a calf problem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

Cuba used to try to showcase Havana as a hip city for tourists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

One holds a baby on her hip, and the other has a little boy of four or five clinging to her skirts.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

But it was up against other, hipper shows like The Word, and a balding, middle-aged, middle-class man being risqué suddenly seemed less cutting-edge.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025

“It was a little more diverse and hipper, so they were probably getting some pushback from older readers.”

From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2024

Drone shows are in some ways the newer, hipper brand of fireworks.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2023

Newer, hipper businesses have flocked to Chinatown over the last decade and turned it into a viral dining destination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2022

String theory has further spawned something called "M theory," which incorporates surfaces known as membranes–or simply "branes" to the hipper souls of the world of physics.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Even if I could try my hand at the hippest startups, I’ve decided that this summer I would try to understand how local economies perform, focusing on the small businesses that help sustain communities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

Instantly recognisable by their electric blue shop fronts, branches of LAP Coffee have become a common sight in Berlin's hippest neighbourhoods over the past two years.

From Barron's ● Nov. 16, 2025

And Chris Rock was the youngest, hippest street comic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2023

Don't laugh at me — remember, I was 16, Instagram wasn't out, and there were no micro-food bloggers schooling to me to hippest and fanciest spots.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2023

They’re the hippest cats I’ve ever seen, in nice pressed suits, looking sophisticated.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

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

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2022

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

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2021

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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2021

When she told him, he burst out laughing, and then hipped her to the store’s true content.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2020

Don't make it too long, and don't think, 'There's that poor, hipped old rotter Gerald, mooning about himself—but sometimes I have a beastly feeling that I mayn't see you again.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives

Like many in the space, Herstand credits the long-running New York production “Sleep No More” with hipping him to the scene.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026

Of course, they saw it as the birth of Woodstock Nation, a giant step toward the hipping of the world at large.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fred tore out a sheet and did some mysterious figuring, afterwards crumpling the paper into a little wad and hipping it behind the bed.

From The Flying U's Last Stand by B. M. Bower

With one hand hipping his saber and the other curling his mustaches, he smiled at her.

From The Lure of the Mask by Harrison Fisher

When the hipping season began with our customers at The Grove, trade became active with us at Wichita.

From Reed Anthony, Cowman by Andy Adams


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