# hipped

Pronunciation: say "HIPT" /hɪpt/

## Adjective

1. Having hips, or having a feature that resembles hips in its outward shape.
   - Simple: Having hips, or a part shaped like hips.
   - _The old farmhouse was crowned with a hipped roof on all four sides._
   - _The potter shaped a hipped jar that bulged outward at its waist._
3. Having hips of a particular kind, such as broad, narrow, or high ones.
   - Simple: Having hips that are a certain shape or size.
   - _The dancer was slender and high hipped, with a long line from waist to knee._
   - _Sculptors of that era carved broad-hipped figures as symbols of fertility._
4. Aware of something and well informed about it. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Knowing what is going on and aware of new things.
   - _The new intern was already hipped to office politics within a week._
   - _Veteran collectors stay hipped to which records are about to spike in value._
5. Interested in or keen on something. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Interested in something and wanting to know more about it.
   - _Ever since the trip, he's been hipped on Japanese cooking._
   - _The whole class became hipped on astronomy after the eclipse._

## Verb

2. Simple past and past participle of hip. — simple past and past participle of hip
   - Simple: Past tense of hip. Use it when telling about something that already happened.
   - _An old bandmate hipped them to a venue that booked new acts._
   - _By the time we arrived, someone had already hipped the crowd to the surprise._

## Adjective

6. Low in spirits; melancholy or depressed. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: Feeling sad and low in spirits for a long time.
   - _Confined indoors by the rain, the old gentleman became thoroughly hipped._
   - _He wrote that he had been sadly hipped since the death of his friend._

## Origin

**Meanings 1, 3** — Formed from hip, in its anatomy sense, with the suffix "-ed".
**Meaning 2** — Formed from the verb "hip".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/hipped (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).