Your hips are the two areas at the sides of your body between the tops of your legs and your waist.

You refer to the bones between the tops of your legs and your waist as your hips .

If you say that someone is hip, you mean that they are very modern and follow all the latest fashions, for example in clothes and ideas.

A hip is a rosehip .

If a large group of people want to show their appreciation or approval of someone, one of them says 'Hip hip' and they all shout 'hooray'.

If you say that someone shoots from the hip or fires from the hip, you mean that they react to situations or give their opinion very quickly, without stopping to think.