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hipbone

hipbone

2 3.8
A large bone at the side of the body that makes the top of the hips
  • noun
  • /ˈhɪpˌboʊn/
  • Specialized
translation icon : hueso de la cadera
  • If you rely solely on your hipbones to keep your pants up, you are too skinny.
  • jutting hipbones
  • left hipbone
  • right hipbone

Examples

  • With the hipbone connected to the thighbone.

  • If she had walked into a wall, her hipbones would have hit first.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Her hipbones were sharp little chips, and the tops of her dresses looked hollow.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Your stomach hollows out; hipbones emerge.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • He'd thought so from the way she stood, her hipbones higher than other horses, a different stance about her legs.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • His jutting hipbones frame my forehead.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Her hipbones now poked at the pockets like bunches of keys.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • The injury to her hipbone made it painful for her to walk.

  • The doctor explained that the hipbone connects the spine to the legs.

  • During the anatomy lesson, we studied the structure of the hipbone.

Synonyms

innominate bone
vshipbone
  • Specialized
9.9

A large hip bone on one side of the pelvis that has three parts

is the common everyday name for the same pelvic bone
innominate
vshipbone
  • Specialized
9.9

A large bone on each side of the pelvis that forms the hip

is the shorter plain term used instead of the longer technical name

How Technical

coxa
  • Specialized
9.9
innominate
  • Specialized
9.9
pelvis
  • Specialized
71 4.4
hipbone
  • Specialized
2 3.8

Surface Forms

hipbone singular
hipbones plural

Morphology

hipbone = hip + bone (transparent) = hip + bone

A direct, literal compound: 'hip' + 'bone' denotes the bone of the hip and is easily inferable by an average B1 learner.

Etymology

Hipbone is simply the two words hip and bone. Hip means 'the top of your leg where it meets your body' and bone means 'a hard part inside your body', so hipbone is the bone at that place.