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hip | fashionable |

As nouns the difference between hip and fashionable

is that hip is the outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue while fashionable is a fashionable person; a fop.

As adjectives the difference between hip and fashionable

is that hip is aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy while fashionable is characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style.

As a verb hip

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

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
  • * '>citation
    • 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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    fashionable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style.
    • a fashionable''' dress; a '''fashionable man
  • Established or favoured by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time.
    • the fashionable''' philosophy; '''fashionable opinions
  • (archaic) genteel; well-bred
    • fashionable society
  • * Shakespeare
    • Time is like a fashionable host / That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.

    Synonyms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person; a fop
  • * {{quote-book, year=1860, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Vol. VI.,October, 1860.--No. XXXVI., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=We speculated upon the astonishment that would have seized upon their simple, innocent hearts, had they beheld, instead of us, a bevy of our city fashionables in full bloom. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=What Is Man? and Other Essays, chapter=At the Shrine of St. Wagner, edition= citation
    • , passage=In large measure the Metropolitan is a show-case for rich fashionables who are not trained in Wagnerian music and have no reverence for it, but who like to promote art and show their clothes. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1991, date=September 20, author=George Grass, title=Star Show, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=A few, perhaps, have a further purpose; they desire to assist in that circus, to show themselves in the capacity of fashionables , to enchant the yokelry with their splendor. }}