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[hip] / hɪp /


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Margaret Giles, 84, from nearby Croesyceiliog, has spent the past nine hours on a trolley there, after slipping and injuring her hip.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Jordan's King Abdullah II visited the injured in the hospital, dressed in military fatigues and carrying a pistol on his hip.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

Nacua played in the season-opening loss to the San Francisco 49ers and then sat out two games because of a hip injury that caused abdominal soreness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

It could then remove deleterious alleles—gene variants that can cause disease or defects—such as those associated with hip dysplasia or other genetic conditions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Involuntarily, Ekon reached for the dagger at his hip.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

Varrett promised to create a labor movement that is “younger, darker, hipper, fresher, sneaker-wearing.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024

“It was a little more diverse and hipper, so they were probably getting some pushback from older readers.”

From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2024

Some of the factors that led to the bankruptcy were particular to Revlon, like debt-fueled deal-making led by the corporate raider Ron Perelman, and a brand that failed to compete against younger, hipper rivals.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2022

“It’s in Salem, which is apparently getting hipper by the moment.”

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

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

In a way, they're clamoring to be "influencers," the hippest of all modern professions.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2024

The glamour and the underbelly of the hippest party house in 1960s L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

They’re the hippest cats I’ve ever seen, in nice pressed suits, looking sophisticated.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

Luckily, other people in his life hipped him to cool bands.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2022

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

Weiss had been hipped by one of his A&R reps to an earlier 24kGoldn song, the equally catchy “Valentino,” and heard in it the work of a gifted songwriter and charismatic vocalist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2020

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

From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2020

Franky, you were quite right—it is as you say; so if I said anything when I was hipped, forgive me.”

From Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One by George Manville Fenn

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

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

Egad, I think the waiter must have thought me mad, as he heard me hip, hipping with "one cheer more," to the sentiment.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever


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