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HIPPED

• HIPPED (adjective)
The adjective HIPPED has 2 senses:

1. having hips; or having hips as specified (usually in combination)
2. (of a roof) sloping on all sides

Familiarity information: HIPPED used as an adjective is rare.

• HIPPED (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Having hips; or having hips as specified (usually in combination)

Context example:

broad-hipped

Domain usage:

combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)

Antonym:

hipless (having or seeming to have no hips)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

(of a roof) sloping on all sides

Context example:

a hipped roof has sloping ends rather than gables

Similar:

mansard ((of a roof) having two slopes on all sides with the lower slope steeper than the upper)

Antonym:

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)

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