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Hip vs Groin - What's the difference?

hip | groin |

As nouns the difference between hip and groin

is that hip is the outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue while groin is the crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.

As verbs the difference between hip and groin

is that hip is to use one's hips to bump into someone while groin is to deliver a blow to the genitals.

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.

    See also

    * hip-hop * * hip hip hooray *

    Anagrams

    * (l)

    References

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    groin

    English

    (wikipedia groin)

    Etymology 1

    From earlier grine, from (etyl) grinde, grynde, from (etyl) ; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
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  • The area adjoining this fold or depression.
  • He pulled a muscle in his groin .
  • (architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
  • (euphemistic) The genitals.
  • He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.
  • (geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults.
  • Coordinate terms
    * inguinal

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deliver a blow to the genitals.
  • In the scrum he somehow got groined .
    She groined him and ran to the car.
  • (architecture) To build with groins.
  • Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
  • (Chaucer)
  • * Spenser
  • bears that groined continually

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