hipshot
English
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edithipshot (comparative more hipshot, superlative most hipshot)
- Having a dislocated hip.
- (dated) Clumsy, awkward.
- (US, colloquial) Standing with one hip lower than the other.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 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
Adverb
edithipshot (comparative more hipshot, superlative most hipshot)
- With one hip lower than the other.
- 2005, Jake Logan, Slocum and the Sierra Madras Gold:
- Slocum [...] watched the horses and mules. Most stood hipshot, sleeping on their feet, nothing bothered them.
- 2005, Lois McMaster Bujold, The Hallowed Hunt:
- The two stubby horses, dusty and sweaty from the road, were standing hip-shot and bored, and Bernan sat on the driver's box with reins slack and his elbows on his knees.