Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hip \Hip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hipped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Hipping}.]
   1. 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.

   2. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling
      (technically called cross buttock).

   3. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.

   {Hipped roof}. See {Hip roof}, under {Hip}.

Hip \Hip\, n. [OE. hipe, huppe, AS. hype; akin to D. heup, OHG.
   huf, G. h["u]fte, Dan. hofte, Sw. h["o]ft, Goth. hups; cf.
   Icel. huppr, and also Gr. ? the hollow above the hips of
   cattle, and Lith. kumpis ham.]
   1. The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of
      the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.

   2. (Arch.) 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. (Engin) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end
      post meets the top chord. --Waddell.

   {Hip bone} (Anat.), the innominate bone; -- called also
      {haunch bone} and {huckle bone}.

   {Hip girdle} (Anat.), the pelvic girdle.

   {Hip joint} (Anat.), the articulation between the thigh bone
      and hip bone.

   {Hip knob} (Arch.), a finial, ball, or other ornament at the
      intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge.

   {Hip molding} (Arch.), a molding on the hip of a roof,
      covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing.

   {Hip rafter} (Arch.), the rafter extending from the wall
      plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof.

   {Hip roof}, {Hipped roof} (Arch.), a roof having sloping ends
      and sloping sides. See {Hip}, n., 2., and {Hip}, v. t., 3.
      

   {Hip tile}, a tile made to cover the hip of a roof.

   {To catch upon the hip}, or {To have on the hip}, to have or
      get the advantage of; -- a figure probably derived from
      wresting. --Shak.

   {To smite hip and thigh}, to overthrow completely; to defeat
      utterly. --Judg. xv. 8.

Hip \Hip\, n. [OE. hepe, AS. he['o]pe; cf. OHG. hiufo a bramble
   bush.] (Bot.)
   The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose
   ({Rosa canina}). [Written also {hop}, {hep}.]

   {Hip tree} (Bot.), the dog-rose.

Hip \Hip\, interj.
   Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!

Hip \Hip\, or Hipps \Hipps\, n.
   See {Hyp}, n. [Colloq.]

Source : WordNet®

hip
     n 1: either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh
     2: the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the
        lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding
        parts in other vertebrates [syn: {pelvis}, {pelvic girdle},
         {pelvic arch}]
     3: the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and
        the acetabulum [syn: {hip joint}, {coxa}, {articulatio
        coxae}]
     4: the fruit of a rose plant [syn: {rose hip}, {rosehip}]
     [also: {hippest}, {hipper}]

hip
     adj : informed about the latest trends [syn: {hep}, {hip to(p)}]
     [also: {hippest}, {hipper}]