hipped

comparative more hipped · superlative most hipped

1. Having hips or a feature resembling hips.

   hipped roof

2. in compoundsHaving hips of a specific kind.

   a wide-hipped woman

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of hip

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of hip

comparative more hipped · superlative most hipped

1. slangAware, informed.

   If I admitted, though, to being a little hipped on the subject of Trotsky, I could sometimes gain an indulgent if flickering attention

   1993, Christopher Hitchens, For the sake of argument: essays and minority reports, page 200

2. slangwith onInterested.

comparative more hipped · superlative most hipped

1. archaicDepressed.

   'You will be hipped, Haredale, you will be miserable, melancholy, utterly wretched.'

   1841, Charles Dickens, chapter XXVII, in Barnaby Rudge

   1 more example

   'I had seen more of the quiet and peace of the country than had been my share since boyhood, and for that reason, or because I had no great taste for the task before me - the task now so imminent - I felt a little hipped.'

   1894, Stanley J. Weyman, chapter II, in Under the Red Robe

   Antonyms: unhipped