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

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

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2022

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 • Dec. 22, 2021

When she told him, he burst out laughing, and then hipped her to the store’s true content.

From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2020

McClinton, Darius Rucker and Kane Brown, right up to Lil Nas X, who hipped the world to the Yeehaw Agenda.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2020

"I am hipped by bad weather, undeveloped gout, and other ills too numerous to mention, but still———" To Mr John Blackwood.

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