| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Having the hip dislocated; hence, having one hip lower than the other.[Websters]
2. Being imperfect or defective. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb hipshotly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (hipshotly) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective hipshot.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "HIPSHOT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
| Note: Hipshot \Hip"shot`\, adjective. [Hip shot.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: HIPSHOT
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Having the hip dislocated.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Adjective] (dated) Clumsy, awkward. (references) | 2: [Adjective] (US, colloquial) Standing with one hip lower than the other. 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 686: No degree of the allegorical avoided an excuse to present an impudently hipshot youth, or a captive maiden in some appealing form of restraint. (references) | 3: [Adjective] Having a dislocated hip. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
