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"HIPS" is a plural of: hip. |
Date "HIPS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you admire well-formed hips, denotes that you will be upbraided by your wife. For a woman to admire her hips, shows she will be disappointed in love matters. To notice fat hips on animals, foretells ease and pleasure. For a woman to dream that her hips are too narrow, omens sickness and disappointments. If too fat, she is in danger of losing her reputation. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
HIPS | English | Highly Interactive Problem Solver | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: HIPS |
| English words defined with "HIPS": akimbo ♦ belly dance, belly dancing, briar, brier ♦ cha-cha, cha-cha-cha ♦ danse du ventre ♦ eglantine ♦ hip bath, hiplength, hipless, hipped, hula-hoop ♦ Juppon ♦ Lancashire style wrestling, loins, lumbosacral ♦ myotonia atrophica, myotonic muscular dystrophy ♦ pannier ♦ roll-on, Rosa eglanteria ♦ Semicupium, sitz bath, Smallclothes, Steinert's disease, sweetbriar, sweetbrier ♦ Three-quarter length, top, tunic ♦ waist, waistline. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "HIPS": Central fat distribution ♦ Valentine's position ♦ Waist-hip-ratio, WHR. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That plot-faced child bride and her electric hips!! (The Parent Trap; writing credit: Erich Kstner; David Swift) When I first saw you I could tell you were bearing the weight of the world on your shoulders and about 30 on your hips! (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) I should just apply it directly to my hips. (Mary Tyler Moore; writing credit: Harold Jacob Smith) You're up to your beautiful hips in murder! (The Mad Miss Manton; writing credit: Philip G. Epstein) | |
Lyrics | Show me how you work dem hips (Uh Huh; performing artist: B2K) Down to the last drip drop, watch the hips rock (What'Chu Like; performing artist: Da Brat) You've got to swing your hips now, (The Loco-Motion; performing artist: Grand Funk Railroad) Know how to work your hips and your head's priceless (I Just Wanna Love U (Give it 2 Me); performing artist: Jay-Z) Hands that rest on jutting hips repenting (What It Feels Like For A Girl; performing artist: Madonna; writing credit: Madonna and Guy Sigsworth) | |
Clever | A moment on the lips, an eternity on the hips. (references; author: unknown) It is bad to suppress laughter; it goes back down and spreads to your hips. (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | This is a series of 16 photos demonstrating the 16 steps of a clinical breast examination. The steps are as follows: 1) arms in normal position 2) arms on hips 3) pressed forward elbows 4) pressed forward 5) arms overhead 6) arms overhead 7) arms raised and pressing down 8) exam of cervical nodes 9) exam of supraclavicular 10) infraclavicular 11) axilla 12) exam of breast 13) axilla 14) breast exam 15) exam of nipple 16) exam of nipple for discharge. Credit: Photogroup (photographer). |  | If you're up to your hips in alligators, it must be Florida An alligator farm in Florida. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | My wife has slacks, too, and they're becoming like yours, especially when she's sitting down so the hips don't show. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Tori Amos | The way I see it, the men that I'm with, whoever they are, it's like look, you have to accept that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can't accept that, then leave. Go away. Toodles. It is non-negotiable. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Stomach and hips were lean, and legs, short, heavy, and strong. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Osteoarthritis of the spine, hips, or knees. (references) | |
Stand with your hands on your hips. The bones under your hands are the pelvic bones. (references) | ||
The most common symptoms are pain in the back and the sides (between the ribs and hips), and headaches. (references) | ||
Business | The 120kt/a PS unit, 100kt/a GPPS and HIPS unit and 40kt/a unit jointly funded and constructed by German BASF and Yangtze Petrochem were completed and have come onstream. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | I know one mom who hired a soccer coach because her baby didn't seem to be angling his hips properly while kicking her from inside the womb. |
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| "HIPS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HIPS" is used about 820 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 820 | 8,533 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "HIPS": broad hips ♦ narrow hips ♦ waggle one's hips. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "HIPS": hands-on-hips, rose-hips. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HIPS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Czech | úzké boky (narrow hips), široké boky (broad hips). (various references) | ||||
Finnish | kädet puuskassa (with hands on hips), kädet lanteilla (with hands on hips, with one's arms akimbo). (various references) | ||||
French | tortiller les hanches (waggle one's hips). (various references) | ||||
German | Hüften (haunches, ilia). (various references) | ||||
Hebrew | מת ים (loins). (various references) | ||||
Indonesian | penggoyang (swayer of hips). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 腰部 (loins, pelvic region, waist). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | 'ップ (backside, buttocks), ようぶ (loins, pelvic region, waist, Western-style dance), ようか" (bean jelly, sweet bean jelly, western-style house, your letter). (various references) | ||||
Macedonian | kolkovi. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ipshay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | murub, sabad. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HIPS": hipshot, hipster, hipsterism, hipsterisms, hipsters. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "HIPS": accountantships, acquaintanceships, airmanships, airships, ambassadorships, amidships, apostleships, apprenticeships, arhatships, artisanships, assistantships, associateships, athwartships, attorneyships, authorships, bailiffships, battleships, biochips, bipartisanships, brinkmanships, brinksmanships, bullwhips, cadetships, captainships, cardinalships, censorships, chairmanships, championships, chancellorships, chiefships, chieftainships, chips, chumships, churchmanships, citizenships, clerkships, coauthorships, colleagueships, collectorships, commanderships, commissionerships, companionships, comptrollerships, comradeships, connoisseurships, conservatorships, consulships, consultantships, consumerships, containerships, controllerships. (additional references) | |
Words containing "HIPS": shipshape, shipside, shipsides, whipsaw, whipsawed, whipsawing, whipsawn, whipsaws, whipstitch, whipstitched, whipstitches, whipstitching, whipstock, whipstocks. (additional references) | |
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"HIPS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ehipa, Hapc, haups, heeps, hepb, hepes, heps, hess, hhp, hibes, hibs, hics, hids, Hiep, Hiibs, hins, hipa, hipes, hipi, hipp, hipt, hipy, hisn, hiys, hmis, hnp, hoopy, hopps, hopsi, hopsy, hps, hrip, hris, Huip, hups, hvis, hyp, hyph, hypp, Ihp, ihs, nhis, yipes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HIPS" (pronounced hi"ps) |
| 3 | -i" p s | blips, chips, clips, dips, drips, eclipse, ellipse, equips, flips, grips, lips, microchips, outstrips, pips, quips, rips, ships, sips, skips, slips, snips, strips, thrips, tips, trips, whips, zips. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: phis, pish, ship. | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-p-s" | |
-1 letter: hip, his, phi, pis, psi, sip. | |
-2 letters: hi, is, pi, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-i-p-s" | |
+1 letter: aphis, apish, chips, piths, ships, spahi, whips. | |
+2 letters: aphids, aspish, bishop, chimps, chirps, hippos, hispid, impish, mishap, mopish, palish, parish, perish, phasic, phasis, phials, phizes, physic, physis, pished, pishes, poisha, polish, popish, punish, raphis, reship, scyphi, shrimp, siphon, spahis, sphinx, spilth, thrips, unship, uppish. | |
+3 letters: airship, aphasia, aphasic, aphesis, aphides, apishly, bishops, bushpig, caliphs, ceriphs, chopins, ciphers, dampish, diphase, dishpan, dumpish, foppish, godship, gunship, harpies, harpins, harpist, hasping, hatpins, hiccups, hipless, hipness, hippest, hippies, hippish, hipshot, hipster, hirples, hospice, huipils, imphees, inphase, isopach, kaliphs, kinship, lumpish, midship, mishaps, ophites, pachisi, palship, panfish, pariahs, pashing, peakish, peckish, peevish, perkish, pettish, phasing, phasmid, phobias, phobics, phonics, phonies, photics, physics, pigfish, piggish, pinches, pinfish, pinkish, pishing, pishoge, pitches, pixyish, planish, plenish, plights, plinths, poorish, prudish, psychic, publish, puckish, puggish, punkish, pupfish, pushier, pushily, pushing, pushpin, raphias, raspish, reships, rompish, rupiahs, sapphic, shaping, sharpie, shilpit, shiplap, shipman, shipmen, shipped, shippen, shipper, shippon, shipway, shrimps, shrimpy, siphons, skyphoi, sonship, sophies, sophism, sophist, spathic, sphenic, spheric, spilths, spinach, spright, sulphid, sylphic, sylphid, syrphid, unships, uphills, upshift, vampish, wampish, warship, waspish, whipsaw, whisper, wimpish, wispish, worship. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Spoken 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Abbreviations 16. Acronyms | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Bibliography |
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