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Hipshot vs Chipshot - What's the difference?

hipshot | chipshot |

As an adjective hipshot

is having a dislocated hip.

As a noun chipshot is

alternative form of chip shot.

hipshot

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a dislocated hip.
  • (dated) Clumsy, awkward.
  • (US, colloquial) Standing with one hip lower than the other.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 686:
    • No degree of the allegorical avoided an excuse to present an impudently hipshot youth, or a captive maiden in some appealing form of restraint

    Quotations

    * 2005 , Jake Logan, Slocum and the Sierra Madras Gold : *: Slocum [...] watched the horses and mules. Most stood hipshot , sleeping on their feet, nothing bothered them. * 2005 , Lois McMaster Bujold, The Hallowed Hunt : *: The two stubby horses, dusty and sweaty from the road, were standing hip-shot and bored, and Bernan sat on the driver's box with reins slack and his elbows on his knees.

    chipshot

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)