hipped

/hɪpt/
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Definitions of hipped
  1. adjective
    having hips; or having hips as specified (usually in combination)
    “broad-hipped”
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    antonyms:
    hipless
    having or seeming to have no hips
  2. adjective
    (of a roof) sloping on all sides
    “a hipped roof has sloping ends rather than gables”
    synonyms:
    mansard
    (of a roof) having two slopes on all sides with the lower slope steeper than the upper
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    antonyms:
    gabled
    (of a roof) constructed with a single slope on each side of the ridge supported at the end by a gable or vertical triangular portion of an end wall
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