hip

Hip denotes:

• in the human body and in mammals, the lateral part of the body below the waist, formed from the upper thigh, hip joint and hip bone,
  see also hip circumference : the largest circumference on the buttocks
• in arthropods, the first limb, see Coxa (arthropods)
• with beef a certain piece of meat, see hip (meat)

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Wiktionary: hip  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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