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hipped

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hipped 1  (hpt)
adj.
Having hips, especially of a given kind. Often used in combination: slim-hipped; large-hipped.

hipped 2  (hpt)
adj.
Slang Interested or preoccupied to a great degree: He is hipped on photography.

[Probably from hip, to make aware, from hip.]

hipped 3  (hpt)
adj. Chiefly British
Melancholy; depressed.

[Shortening and alteration of hypochondriac.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.hipped - having hips; or having hips as specified (usually in combination); "broad-hipped"
combining form - a bound form used only in compounds; "`hemato-' is a combining form in words like `hematology'"
hipless - having or seeming to have no hips; "slim and hipless"
2.hipped - (of a roof) sloping on all sides; "a hipped roof has sloping ends rather than gables"
gabled - (of a roof) constructed with a single slope on each side of the ridge supported at the end by a gable or vertical triangular portion of an end wall; "a gabled roof"


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You will be hipped, Haredale; you will be miserable, melancholy, utterly wretched,' returned the other.
Not so upon those of the unhappy Dammit, who offered to bet the Devil his head that I was hipped.
And my advice to all men is, that if ever they become hipped and melancholy from similar causes (as very many men do), they look at both sides of the question, applying a magnifying-glass to the best one; and if they still feel tempted to retire without leave, that they smoke a large pipe and drink a full bottle first, and profit by the laudable example of the Baron of Grogzwig.
 
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