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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hip n.
 1. The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
 2. Arch. The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.
 3. Engin In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
 Hip bone Anat., the innominate bone; -- called also haunch bone and huckle bone.
 Hip girdle Anat., the pelvic girdle.
 Hip joint Anat., the articulation between the thigh bone and hip bone.
 Hip knob Arch., a finial, ball, or other ornament at the intersection of the hip rafters and the ridge.
 Hip molding Arch., a molding on the hip of a roof, covering the hip joint of the slating or other roofing.
 Hip rafter Arch., the rafter extending from the wall plate to the ridge in the angle of a hip roof.
 Hip roof, Hipped roof Arch., a roof having sloping ends and sloping sides. See Hip, n., 2., and Hip, v. t., 3.
 Hip tile, a tile made to cover the hip of a roof.
 To catch upon the hip, or To have on the hip, to have or get the advantage of; -- a figure probably derived from wresting. --Shak.
 To smite hip and thigh, to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly. --Judg. xv. 8.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hipped p. pr. & vb. n. Hipping.]
 1. 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.
 2. To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
 3. To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
 Hipped roof. See Hip roof, under Hip.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 hip roof
      n : a roof having sloping ends as well as sloping sides