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hip

[hip] / hɪp /


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Nacua was sidelined two games this season because of a hip injury and was also playing through a calf injury.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

Each player wears a thin black belt which is cinched tightly around the waist with one flag attach to each hip.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

There were downed trees in every direction, and it was impossible for him to climb up and over them with a broken hip.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

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

With “The Exhibit,” the Hirshhorn is eyeing the tens of millions of households that have access to the Smithsonian Channel and its arguably hipper sister network.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023

Will the passion of the academy’s younger and hipper voters be enough to make up that shortfall and push “Everything Everywhere” to the top?

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2023

Sometimes it’s a little hard having a mom who’s hipper than you are.

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm

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

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

“When it’s more scalable, hydrogen will be the hippest thing to drive.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2022

Jazz strains leak from behind the doors of the hippest clubs.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

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

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

From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2020

There, I just hipped you to a wonderful alternative to aching your way through Emmy night.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2018

The Cheney house, built in 1903, was a broad-shouldered example of Wright’s Prairie style, its hipped roof extending protectively over a base of Roman brick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2017

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

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

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

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


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