hipped

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From hip (“anatomy sense”) + -ed.

hipped (comparative more hipped, superlative most hipped)

1. Having hips or a feature resembling hips.

   hipped roof

2. (in combination) Having hips of a specific kind.

   a wide-hipped woman

From hip (verb).

hipped

1. simple past and past participle of hip

See hip (“trendy”).

hipped

1. simple past and past participle of hip

hipped (comparative more hipped, superlative most hipped)

1. (slang) Aware, informed.
   • 1993, Christopher Hitchens, For the sake of argument: essays and minority reports, page 200:

     If I admitted, though, to being a little hipped on the subject of Trotsky, I could sometimes gain an indulgent if flickering attention

2. (slang, with on) Interested.

Compare hippish.
Alternative spelling of hypped.

hipped (comparative more hipped, superlative most hipped)

1. (archaic) Depressed.

   Antonym: unhipped

   • 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter XXVII, in Barnaby Rudge:

     'You will be hipped, Haredale, you will be miserable, melancholy, utterly wretched.'

   • 1894, Stanley J. Weyman, chapter II, in Under the Red Robe:

     'I had seen more of the quiet and peace of the country than had been my share since boyhood, and for that reason, or because I had no great taste for the task before me - the task now so imminent - I felt a little hipped.'