hip

• the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum
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• either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh
• the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates
• (architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof
• the fruit of a rose plant
• The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint
• 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
• In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord
• 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
• To throw (one´s adversary) over one´s hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock)
• To make with a hip or hips, as a roof
• The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina)
• Used to excite attention or as a signal

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