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Hip vs Buttocks - What's the difference?

hip | buttocks |

As nouns the difference between hip and buttocks

is that hip is the outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue while buttocks is plural of lang=en.

As a verb hip

is to use one's hips to bump into someone.

As an adjective hip

is aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy.

hip

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • (anatomy) The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
  • The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
  • In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
    • (Waddell)
    Derived terms
    * hipbone * hip joint * hip replacement * hip roof * shoot from the hip

    Verb

    (hipp)
  • (chiefly, sports) To use one's hips to bump into someone.
  • To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock ).
  • 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.
  • To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The fruit of a rose.
    • Derived terms
    * rosehip

    Etymology 3

    Probably a variant of . Maybe from (etyl) {{reference-book , first=Clarence , last=Major , year=1994 , title=Juba to jive: a dictionary of African-American slang , page = 234 , pageurl = http://books.google.fr/books?hl=fr&id=4LNZAAAAMAAJ&q=wolof
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    Adjective

    (hipper)
  • (slang) aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy
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    • Rudolph promoted Stevens Pass with restless zeal. In seven years there, he helped turn a relatively small, roadside ski area into a hip destination.
    Synonyms
    * cool, groovy

    Verb

    (hipp)
  • (slang) To inform, to make knowledgeable.
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  • * 2009 , Sean Rogers, Pynchon and comics
    • The guy hips himself to so many things.

    Related terms

    * hipster * hippy * hippie

    See also

    * hip-hop * * hip hip hooray *

    Anagrams

    * (l)

    References

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    buttocks

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • .
  • * 1707 , , "Moll Quarles's Answer to Mother Creswell of Famous Memory" in The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Tho. Brown, containing Letters from the Dead to the Living both Serious and Comical , part three, page 184:
    • At lea?t five Hundred of the?e reforming Vultures are daily plundering our Pockets, and ran?acking our Hou?es, leaving me ?ometimes not one pair of Tractable Buttocks in my Vaulting-School to provide for my Family, or earn me ?o much as a Pudding for my next Sundays Dinner : [...]
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}