All English words - page 2436

Meanings of Hints:

noun

A slight or indirect indication or suggestion.

Usage examples:

He has given no hint of his views

verb

Suggest or indicate something indirectly or covertly.

Usage examples:

The minister hinted at a possible change of heart

Meanings of Hip:

noun

A projection of the pelvis and upper thigh bone on each side of the body in human beings and quadrupeds.

Usage examples:

Not only was there damage to my hip, but my pelvis had been fractured as well.

adjective

Very fashionable.

Usage examples:

It's hip to be environmentally conscious

exclamation

Used to introduce a communal cheer.

Usage examples:

Hip hip hooray!

Meanings of Hip-bath:

noun

A small bath with a seat built into it, designed for sitting rather than lying in

Meanings of Hip-flask:

noun

A small, flat bottle that is used to carry alcohol in your pocket

Meanings of Hipbone:

noun

A large bone forming the main part of the pelvis on each side of the body and consisting of the fused ilium, ischium, and pubis.

Meanings of Hipbones:

noun

A large bone forming the main part of the pelvis on each side of the body and consisting of the fused ilium, ischium, and pubis.

Meanings of Hipe:

noun

Especially in cumberland and westmorland wrestling: a manoeuvre in which a wrestler lifts an adversary with both arms, often placing a knee between the thighs to throw the opponent off balance, and then swings him or her to the ground.

verb

Of cattle: to butt, push with the head or horns; to gore.

Meanings of Hiper:

noun

Especially in cumberland and westmorland wrestling: a person who uses a hipe. often with modifying word, as expert, good, etc.

Meanings of Hipflask:

noun

A small flask for spirits, of a kind intended to be carried in a hip pocket.

Meanings of Hiphuggers:

plural noun

Hipsters.

Usage examples:

She was wearing tight blue jean hip-huggers, a white spaghetti strapped shirt, and a tight white fi…

noun

Trousers that do not reach as high as the waist

Meanings of Hipless:

adjective

Lacking, or apparently lacking, hips; not having prominent hips; especially (of a person) having a boyishly slender figure.

Meanings of Hipline:

noun

The line of, or a line representing, the hip of a roof.

Meanings of Hipness:

noun

The quality of being fashionable or stylish

Usage examples:

The restaurant's hipness owes itself to the fact that it's a relaxed, casual place with a menu that…

Meanings of Hippalectryon:

noun

A mythical creature with the head, shoulders, and forelegs of a horse and the wings, tail, and legs of a cockerel.

Meanings of Hipparch:

noun

(the title of) the commander of a force of cavalry or a high-ranking magistrate in ancient greece.

Meanings of Hipparion:

noun

Any of the small three-toed equids of the extinct genus hipparion, known from fossils found in miocene to pleistocene deposits. also (in form hipparion): the genus itself.

Meanings of Hippeastrum:

noun

See amaryllis.

Meanings of Hipped:

adjective

Having hips of a specified kind.

Usage examples:

A thin-hipped girl

noun

The covering that forms the top of a building, ...

Meanings of Hippen:

noun

A piece of absorbent material wrapped round a baby's bottom to absorb urine and faeces; a nappy.

Usage examples:

They were both out of their hippens by then

Meanings of Hipper:

noun

A soft pad used to protect a person's hip when sleeping on the ground.

Usage examples:

Put that under you for a hipper, and you'll be all right

adjective

Very fashionable.

Usage examples:

It's hip to be environmentally conscious

Comparative of hip informal

Meanings of Hippest:

adjective

Very fashionable.

Usage examples:

It's hip to be environmentally conscious

noun

A projection of the pelvis and upper thigh bone on each side of the body in human beings and quadrupeds.

Usage examples:

Not only was there damage to my hip, but my pelvis had been fractured as well.

exclamation

Used to introduce a communal cheer.

Usage examples:

Hip hip hooray!

Superlative of hip informal

Meanings of Hippiatric:

adjective

Of, relating to, or concerning the medical treatment of horses.

noun

A person who writes about or carries out medical treatment of horses.

Meanings of Hippiatrical:

adjective

= hippiatric .

Meanings of Hippiatrics:

noun

The medical treatment of horses. in early use chiefly: †(the title of) a treatise or set of works dealing with this (obsolete).

Meanings of Hippiatrist:

noun

A writer on or practitioner of hippiatry.