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单词 hip-shot
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hip-shotadj.n.1adv.

Brit. /ˈhɪpʃɒt/, U.S. /ˈhɪpˌʃɑt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hip n.1, English shot , shoot v.
Etymology: < hip n.1 + shot, past participle of shoot v. Compare earlier hipped adj.1 2 and slightly later hip-shotten adj.
A. adj.
1. Having a dislocated, injured, or diseased hip; spec. (of a horse) having a fracture of the anterior spine of the ilium (which makes the point of the affected hip appear to be lower than that of the normal hip). Hence more generally: lame, limping. Cf. down in the hip at hip n.1 Phrases 4, hipped adj.1 2. Now rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [adjective] > dislocated > of hip
hip-halta1393
hipped1565
hip-shot1639
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xi. 240 How doe you cure a Horse that is Hip-shot?
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables ccxxii. 194 Why do you go Nodding, and Waggling so like a Fool, as if you were Hipshot? says the Goose to her Gosselin.
1735 Sportsman's Dict. I Hip-shot, a horse is said to be such, when he..has sprained his haunches or hips, so as to relaxate the ligaments that keep the bone in it's due place.
1799 Sporting Mag. 14 185 To be hipped or hipshot is to have one hip lower than the other.
1826 Slave Colonies Great Brit. (ed. 2) 49 A poor sickly hip-shot boy, who..was still too weak to do much work.
1877 Ohio State Jrnl. 16 May A hipshot, windbroken horse.
1910 Sunset Mag. June 694/1 When darkness fell I could stand it no longer and determined to visit the hip-shot stranger.
1957 R. Lister Decorative Wrought Ironwork 231 Patten shoe, in farriery, a shoe used for a hip-shot horse.
2. figurative. Awkward, clumsy; disjointed. Obsolete. rare (U.S. in later use).Cf. hip-shotten adj.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward
stubblea1300
lubber?1515
awkward1530
unwieldy1530
lubberlike1572
unwieldsome1579
lubberly1580
looby1582
wieldy1588
clumsy1597
ungainly1611
unqueme1611
untowardly1611
clouter-likea1624
hip-shot1642
loobish1648
loobily1655
bumble-arsed1661
clouterly1675
lubbard1679
fumbling1681
sinistrousa1682
maladroit1685
shammockinga1704
ungain1710
splay-footed1716
gawky1759
hobbledehoyish1812
uncouthly1821
nunting1836
shammocky1841
numb1854
awkwardish1860
slummocky?1861
numb-footed1867
gawkish1876
flat-footed1899
brontosaurian1909
shamblya1937
slew-foot1945
ham-footed1960
klutzy1961
dorkus1979
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 30 The field..which this hip-shot Grammarian cannot set into right frame of construction, neither here in the similitude, nor in the following reddition thereof.
1884 New Albany (Indiana) Ledger 29 July We too could have a capital singing class by banishing about two dozen discordant, hipshot voices.
3. Chiefly North American. Designating a stance in which most of a person's (or animal's) weight is borne by one leg or side of the body (typically with one hip lower than the other). Cf. sense C.
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1915 B. M. Bower Jean of Lazy A xx. 264 Standing there with his weight all on one foot, in that attitude which cowboys call ‘hipshot’.
1950 L. D. Longman Outl. Art Hist. 29 Smiling almond-eyed Madonnas and Child with ‘hip-shot’ attitude or ‘Gothic slouch’.
1975 Burlington Mag. 117 299/2 Superimposed over this is a sketch of a woman in evening dress standing in an exaggerated hip-shot pose.
1987 S. E. Cregier in N. E. Robinson Curr. Therapy Equine Med. 2 ii. 137 (table) Low head carriage, hipshot resting stance assumed.
2007 D. Smith Gentle Rain 195 Ben shifted to a hipshot stance, his large, callused hands hooked in his jeans pockets.
B. n.1
The condition of having a dislocated or injured hip; an instance of this. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [noun] > dislocation > of hip
hipping1610
hip-shot1654
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. i. 69 There is no flaw, no shoulder-spraine, hip-shot, nor rib-rost in thy credit.
1696 W. Hope tr. J. de Solleysel Compl. Horseman ii. clxi. 263 (heading) Of Hip-shot, or a Strain in the Hips.
1721 W. Gibson Farriers Dispensatory iii. xiv. 277 For a Hipshot, or Dislocation.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) Hip-Shot..befals these Animals many Ways, sometimes by the Wrench or Stroak of another Horse, and at other Times by a Slip, Strain, Sliding or Falling.
1780 T. Jefferson Let. 29 Oct. in Papers (1958) XV. 593 I had as many sore legs, hipshots, broken backs &c produced as there were men ordered to go.
C. adv.
North American. With reference to the stance of a person or animal: with most weight borne by one leg or side of the body (typically with one hip lower than the other). Frequently in to stand hip-shot.
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1914 G. M. Dodge Personal Recoll. Lincoln, Grant & Sherman 67 When General Grant commenced reading he was standing awkwardly, what would commonly be called ‘hipshot’.
1928 Forest & Stream Dec. 759/1 There was Mr. Moose. He was about sixty yards from me, and was standing hipshot.
1959 H. Sandburg Meas. my Love xi. 151 Nearby the mule rested hipshot, untouched by the racket, its head drooped.
1993 T. C. Bambara in M. Diawara Black Amer. Cinema viii. 129 She's standing hipshot, chin cocked, one arm akimbo.
2015 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 2 Feb. a4 He stood at the front of a classroom weaving funny anecdotes into a lecture and leaning hip-shot on a desk.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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