A hipped roof has sloping ends rather than gables. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Broad-hipped. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : broad-hipped; narrow-hipped. From Dictionary.com.
I'd never seen that use of "hipped" before; I knew it only as a synonym for "tired.". From Wordnik.com. [Sashtastic! - A Dress A Day] Reference
Sehwag let a couple go by, 'hipped' one away and then reverse swept him magnificently past point. From Wordnik.com. [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference
He was a sort of 'hipped' character, and believed that he could not walk, if he were to try ever so much. From Wordnik.com. [The Lighthouse] Reference
And if it were the last word I utter, all that happened over that has 'hipped' me more than anything. ". From Wordnik.com. [Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl] Reference
Grigery was tall, wide-shouldered and slim-hipped. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
Full-breasted and broad-hipped fit to have children!. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
Testosterone bodies are small breasts, small hipped. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2007] Reference
The cottage was old, half-timbered and hipped-roofed. From Wordnik.com. [The Imaginary Marriage] Reference
I feel a little hipped to-day, but every one does at times. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
He was totally hipped on Mencken, knew quite a lot about him. From Wordnik.com. [In a Strange City]
Another song that Stephen Bruton, by the way, had hipped me to. From Wordnik.com. [T-Bone Burnett: Zen And The Art Of Music] Reference
The house with the nice, old hipped roof was at one time owned by a. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
Broad-shouldered and slim-hipped, his bronzed arms showed many scars. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
"GRANDOLPH seems hipped," said WARING, watching him as he swung through the. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 25, 1891] Reference
He admired her shapely, narrow-hipped rear end, which she kept turned to him. From Wordnik.com. [Protagonist Unbound] Reference
She's built perfectly for it: six feet tall, fit and slender but broad-hipped. From Wordnik.com. [The Curious Lives of Surrogates] Reference
What should wide-hipped women do since they can't change the size of their bones?. From Wordnik.com. [Hip Check] Reference
Childbirth is never easy for us, not like the big-hipped women of the countryside. From Wordnik.com. [Shield of Thunder]
Fig 3/135 Row house with hipped roof, elongated in E-W direction, provide the best shading. From Wordnik.com. [3. Design rules] Reference
Randy had seen other men, broad-shouldered, thin-hipped, who had come to worse than crutches. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference
Babes hung at the breasts of the women, and they were heavy-hipped with increase of the tribe. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
Is it equality to scramble with men in the search for knowledge, narrow hipped and flat-chested?. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
An hour later I had wormed my way up the queue to see a slinky-hipped clerk with long eyelashes. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
These critical east and west walls are best protected if the house is covered with a hipped roof. From Wordnik.com. [3. Design rules] Reference
Small-bosomed and narrow-hipped, Chanel said, “Cut my head off and I look like an adolescent boy.”. From Wordnik.com. [Spotlight on Coco Chanel] Reference
They found that breast cancer rates were more than three times higher in women with wide-hipped mothers. From Wordnik.com. [Hip Check] Reference
She was tall, slender, round-bosomed, narrow-hipped, and she held her lovely body in the erect poise of splendid health. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
That was all good and fine for a young, narrow-hipped lady, but not at all suitable for the older, more dignified woman. From Wordnik.com. [For The Roses]
He was a tall young man, broad-shouldered and lean-hipped - not unhandsome, though his beauty was marred by a hook of a nose. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
The Abercrombie catalogue was conspicuously missing the buff half-naked boys and fey, slim-hipped girls that made it famous. From Wordnik.com. [The Perimeter] Reference
This ham-hipped nutball is standing here giving her a come-one with a weirdo angle to it and pouring mayonnaise into her brains. From Wordnik.com. [Something Better Than This] Reference
The faceless car boys look at them, half angrily, half wistfully, but this ham-hipped character here doesn't even glance at them. From Wordnik.com. [Something Better Than This] Reference
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