The difference between Groovy and Hip
When used as nouns, groovy means a trendy and fashionable person, whereas hip means the outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
When used as adjectives, groovy means of, pertaining to, or having grooves, whereas hip means aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy.
Hip is also verb with the meaning: to use one's hips to bump into someone.
check bellow for the other definitions of Groovy and Hip
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Groovy as an adjective:
Of, pertaining to, or having grooves.
Examples:
"The back of the tile was groovy so that it could hold the adhesive compound."
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Groovy as an adjective (dated):
Set in one's ways.
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Groovy as an adjective (dated, slang):
Cool, neat, interesting, fashionable.
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Groovy as a noun (dated, slang):
A trendy and fashionable person.
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Hip as a noun (anatomy):
The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
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Hip as a noun:
The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
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Hip as a noun:
In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
Examples:
"rfquotek Waddell"
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Hip as a noun (slang, possibly, dated):
A drug addict, especially someone addicted to a narcotic like heroin.
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Hip as a verb (chiefly, sports):
To use one's hips to bump into someone.
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Hip as a verb:
To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
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Hip as a verb:
To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
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Hip as a verb:
To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
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Hip as a noun:
The fruit of a rose.
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Hip as an adjective (slang):
Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy.
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Hip as a verb (transitive, slang):
To inform, to make knowledgeable.