hipshot

comparative more hipshot · superlative most hipshot

1. Having a dislocated hip.
2. datedClumsy, awkward.
3. UScolloquialStanding with one hip lower than the other.

   No degree of the allegorical avoided an excuse to present an impudently hipshot youth, or a captive maiden in some appealing form of restraint

   2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 686

comparative more hipshot · superlative most hipshot

1. With one hip lower than the other.

   Slocum [...] watched the horses and mules. Most stood hipshot, sleeping on their feet, nothing bothered them.

   2005, Jake Logan, Slocum and the Sierra Madras Gold

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   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.

   2005, Lois McMaster Bujold, The Hallowed Hunt