hipshot

English

Etymology

hip +‎ shot

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪpʃɒt/

Adjective

hipshot (comparative more hipshot, superlative most hipshot)

1. Having a dislocated hip.
2. (dated) Clumsy, awkward.
3. (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

hipshot (comparative more hipshot, superlative most hipshot)

1. 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.