Hip vs Breech - What's the difference?
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(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.
(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.
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(slang) aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy
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(slang) To inform, to make knowledgeable.
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* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 157:
* 1736 , Alexander Pope, Bounce to Fop :
* 1749 , , Book III ch viii
*:"Oho!" says Thwackum, "you will not! then I will have it out of your br—h ;" that being the place to which he always applied for information on every doubtful occasion.
The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber.
(nautical) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
A breech birth.
With the hips coming out before the head.
Born, or having been born, breech.
(dated) To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time.
* 1748-1832 , Jeremy Bentham, The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 10 :
* Macaulay
(dated) To beat or spank on the buttocks.
To fit or furnish with a breech.
To fasten with breeching.
(poetic, transitive, obsolete) To cover as if with breeches.
* Shakespeare
As a noun breech is
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with the hips coming out before the head.As an adjective breech is
born, or having been born, breech.As a verb breech is
(dated|transitive) to dress in breeches (especially) to dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time.hip
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- (Waddell)
Derived terms
* hipbone * hip joint * hip replacement * hip roof * shoot from the hipVerb
(hipp)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) ).Derived terms
* rosehipEtymology 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=wolofAdjective
(hipper)- 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, groovyVerb
(hipp)- The guy hips himself to so many things.
See also
* hip-hop * * hip hip hooray *Anagrams
* (l)References
breech
English
Noun
- And he made a woman for playing the whore, sit upon a great stone, on her bare breech twenty-foure houres, onely with corne and water, every three dayes, till nine dayes were past [...].
- When pamper'd Cupids'', bestly ''Veni's'', / And motly, squinting ''Harvequini's , / Shall lick no more their Lady's Br— , / But die of Looseness, Claps, or Itch; / Fair Thames from either ecchoing Shoare / Shall hear, and dread my manly Roar.
Adverb
(-)Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* breech birth * rod for one's own breechVerb
- it occurred before I was breeched , and I was breeched at three years and a quarter old;
- A great man anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched .
- to breech a gun
- Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore.