hipbone
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- noun
- /ˈhɪpˌboʊn/
- Specialized
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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
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With the hipbone connected to the thighbone.
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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.
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The doctor explained that the hipbone connects the spine to the legs.
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During the anatomy lesson, we studied the structure of the hipbone.
Synonyms
A large hip bone on one side of the pelvis that has three parts
A large bone on each side of the pelvis that forms the hip
How Technical
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.