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[hip] / hɪp /


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Vance’s efforts to seem hip come across as forced, as if he has never met a fellow millennial and can only approximate their lingo and cadence from reading old magazine reviews of movies like “Clueless.”

From Salon Jul. 29, 2026

Researchers from the University of Sydney and University of Melbourne found that exercise leads to small average improvements in pain and physical function among people with hip osteoarthritis.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

Simon explained in her statement that she experienced arthritis in both of her knees and one hip prior to receiving her diagnosis.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

They’re kidding, but he invites himself along anyway, in the hope that hanging with 20-somethings will miraculously make him hip.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Jad looped it over Roz’s left shoulder and down around her right hip.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

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

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

From Slate Jun. 3, 2024

Sixteen years after “Knocked Up” came out, though, Michael McDonald is arguably hipper than he’s ever been.

From Los Angeles Times May 4, 2023

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

Sometimes it’s a little hard having a mom who’s hipper than you are.

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm

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

Don't laugh at me — remember, I was 16, Instagram wasn't out, and there were no micro-food bloggers schooling to me to hippest and fanciest spots.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 28, 2022

Jazz strains leak from behind the doors of the hippest clubs.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

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

From Salon Nov. 26, 2022

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

I was hipped to the binary—and not just its use in making one into two, aka male and female.

From Time Oct. 11, 2016

It has already, and I am down and hipped and bedevilled cruelly.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund

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

With one hand hipping his saber and the other curling his mustaches, he smiled at her.

From The Lure of the Mask by Fisher, Harrison

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 Lever, Charles James

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 Bower, B. M.




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