I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a thigh/hip/ankle etc bone
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He was so thin that his hip bones were sticking out.
fracture your leg/arm/hip etc
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He fractured his right leg during training.
hip flask
hip hop
hip pocket
knee/neck/hip/elbow etc joint
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a permanently damaged knee joint
rose hip
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
artificial
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It is the excellent wear characteristics of alumina which are the principal advantage in artificial hip systems.
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It is exactly this problem which causes a percentage of artificial hip joint failures.
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In much the same way computer simulation has been used in bioengineering in the design of prosthesis such as artificial limbs or hips .
lean
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The massive shoulders and chest tapered down to the lean cowboy hips and long legs.
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The leotard she wore was a pale yellow Spandex, defining the wide shoulders and lean hips of a gymnast.
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When finally he fitted his lean hips into the cradle of hers she was ready for him, impatient for his possession.
narrow
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I say, Tash, look at her narrow , narrow hips .
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Wide cheeks, the narrow hips of a boy.
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Then he leaned back from his narrow hips and hurled the apple directly at Gabriel's head.
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So skinny, wasted legs and narrow hips that his genitalia showed gigantic.
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Usually Sara saw him as a bronzed, athletic man with a steady gaze, manly features and narrow hips .
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The Ectomorph frame is small with narrow shoulders and sometimes even narrower hips .
wide
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Never mind, Madeleine always said to the flinching Thérèse: wide hips are best for having babies.
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She finished, fluttered her lashes at me and smoothed the corduroy dress over her wide hips .
■ NOUN
replacement
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Carrying out the precision drilling in a delicate hip replacement operation is the world's first robotic surgeon.
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Robodoc, a mechanical arm with a drill on the end, helped surgeons carry out a complicated hip replacement .
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Do our surgical colleagues stop doing total hip replacements for pain because of the incidence of possible fatal embolism?
■ VERB
break
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About this time Mrs Foskett slipped on the floor and broke her hip , dying shortly afterwards.
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Drinan suffered a concussion, a broken left hip , a broken left foot and a bruised lung in a Saturday crash.
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On the other hand, if I did slip and break my hip I should no doubt be dead by the morning.
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Only about a third of those who have surgery for broken hips regain the same level of activity as before the fracture.
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Immediately Buzz knew she'd broken her hip .
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Is that what you tell your patients, to go dancing and gallivanting around just after breaking a hip ?
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He broke his hip whilst hunting and the poor man walked with a limp from then on.
shoot
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Because I was experiencing shooting sensations around my hips , the doctor was convinced I had a back problem.
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Bolinger, a Harvard Professor shoots from the hip .
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Still rolling, Forster shot from the hip .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be joined at the hip
knee/hip/joint replacement
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A prosthesis used in a joint replacement costs between $ 5,000 and $ 10,000.
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Carrying out the precision drilling in a delicate hip replacement operation is the world's first robotic surgeon.
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For those over 65, it is knee or hip replacement .
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I had been having trouble with arthritis for years, and nine years ago had a hip replacement .
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Just two months ago, he underwent bowel and hip replacement surgery that cost $ 120, 000.
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One person's hip replacement operation certainly prevents the busy surgeon from doing something else at the same time.
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She has undergone three hip replacement surgeries in the last three years.
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With 40,000 hip replacements a year, making joints is big business, now mostly done by multi-nationals companies.
shoot from the hip
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Bolinger, a Harvard Professor shoots from the hip.
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He saw himself shooting from the hip.
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Still rolling, Forster shot from the hip.
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Students were content to shoot from the hip, as Ronen Wilk had put it.
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They walk into rooms and shoot from the hip.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Check that you are in a square position with your hands directly under your shoulders and your knees under your hips.
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Harriet met them at the edge of the yard with her hands on her hips.
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If Christmas has settled on your hips and middle, it's time to act.
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Mrs Fanning rolled her hips in a droll way like some one trying to keep up a Hula-Hoop.
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Now reverse it - right hand behind your head, left hand on hip and lean to your left.
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She had shredded the thing with her hips.
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The leotard she wore was a pale yellow Spandex, defining the wide shoulders and lean hips of a gymnast.
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The physiotherapist controls the patient's balance reactions by maintaining control of the patient's hip and knee.
II. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I hate old people who dress like teenagers and think they're hip .
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It's really funny when Dad tries to be hip .
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The South Side is becoming a really hip place to live.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But I plan over the next year to completely renew my rig; there are just too many hip new things.
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But Route 66 shows that nostalgia is positively hip .
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This attitude is defiantly hip and belligerently contemporary.