hip-hop
- n an urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city
- n genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
hip bath
- n a bathtub in which your buttocks and hips are immersed as if you were sitting in a chair and you bathe in a sitting position
hip joint
- n the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum
hip pad
- n protective garment consisting of a pad worn by football and hockey players
hip socket
- n the socket part of the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the innominate bone
hipbone
- n large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis
hipline
- n the line formed by measuring the hip at its greatest part
- n the line formed by the lower edge of hip-length garment
hipparchus
- n Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC)
hippeastrum
- n amaryllis of tropical America often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers
hippeastrum puniceum
- n amaryllis of tropical America often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers