Usually means: Stylish, trendy, appealing to youth.
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We found 57 dictionaries that define the word hip:

General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. hip: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. HIP, HIP, hip, hip, hip, hip: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hip, hip, hip, hip: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hip: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hip: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hip, hip: Wordnik
  7. hip: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hip, Hip, Hip, Hip, Hip: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. HIP, hip: Wiktionary
  10. hip: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. hip: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. hip: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. HIP: Dictionary.com
  14. hip (adj.), hip (interjection), hip (n1.), hip (n2.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. hip: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. HIP, Hip (album), Hip (anatomy), Hip (disambiguation), Hip (slang), Hip: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Hip: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. hip: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. hip: Rhymezone
  20. hip: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. hip: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. HIP: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. HIP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. Hip: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. hip: Free Dictionary
  26. hip: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. hip: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  28. Hip: The Word Detective
  29. hip: Dictionary/thesaurus
  30. hip: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jazz Humor (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hip (anatomy), Hip (roofing), hip: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hip: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. Hip (anatomy), hip: Medical dictionary
  7. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. HIP: Acronym Finder
  2. HIP: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. hip: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  3. HIP: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. hip, hip, hip, hip, hip, hip, hip: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. HIP: The Folk File
  3. Hip: 1960's Slang
  4. hip: ESL Slang page
  5. H.I.P, The Hip, hip (hop): Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hip: Construction Glossary
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See hiping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy) The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
noun:  The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
noun:  In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
noun:  (slang, possibly dated) A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.
verb:  (chiefly sports) To use one's hips to bump into someone.
verb:  (wrestling) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
verb:  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.
verb:  To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
noun:  The fruit of a rose.
adjective:  (slang) Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To inform, to make knowledgeable.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Hippolyta.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (British) Acronym of Home Information Pack. [(British) A collection of documents relating to a property, which, under the law of England and Wales between June 2007 and 2010, had to be provided when the property was offered for sale. Abbreviation: HIP]
noun:  (travel industry) Acronym of Higher Intermediate Point.
noun:  (music) Acronym of historically informed performance.

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