hipped

¹ American  

[hipt] / hɪpt /

adjective

1. having hips.

2. having the hips as specified (usually used in combination).

   broad-hipped; narrow-hipped.

3. (especially of livestock) having the hip injured or dislocated.

4. Architecture. formed with a hip or hips, as a roof.

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hipped ² American  

[hipt] / hɪpt /

adjective

Informal.

1. greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed byon ).

   He's hipped on learning to play the tuba.

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hipped ¹ British  

/ hɪpt /

adjective

1. 1. having a hip or hips

   2. ( in combination )

      broad-hipped

      low-hipped

2. (esp of cows, sheep, reindeer, elk, etc) having an injury to the hip, such as a dislocation of the bones

3. architect having a hip or hips See also hipped roof

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hipped ² British  

/ hɪpt /

adjective

1. old-fashioned very enthusiastic (about)

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Etymology

Origin of hipped¹

First recorded in 1500–10; hip ¹ + -ed ³

Origin of hipped²

First recorded in 1915–20; hip ⁴ + -ed ³

Example Sentences

Yet tucked among the encouragements to get “hipped to oneness” and “train the other sight” is the dark glimmer of where the cult-religion line blurs.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Salon

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

The top story is clad in stucco with an overhanging hipped roof.

From Washington Post

Valley Village came out of a rib of North Hollywood, which hipped itself up as NoHo, but was born as Lankershim, for an early Valley wheat grower whose son-in-law was named Van Nuys.

From Los Angeles Times