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The correct spelling is hips.
How to pronounce hips
noun
IPA: /hɪps/
Say it like: Hip-s
The correct spelling is hips. The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
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Meanings
noun
- 1.The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
- 2.The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
- 3.In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
- 4.(possibly obsolete) A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.
- 5.The fruit of a rose.
verb
- 1.To use one's hips to bump into someone.
- 2.To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
- 3.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.
- 4.To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
- 5.To inform, to make knowledgeable.
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