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*hip to someone or something
Inf. knowing about someone or something; adapting to someone or something. (*Typically: be ~; get ~; become ~.) The boss began to get hip to Mary and her deviousness. She finally began to get hip to what was going on.
See also: hip


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1993; Fleisig and Andrews, 1995), the fact that these are experienced in a closed kinetic chain, may produce sufficient torsion on the hip to predispose the joint to injury.
In such a case, the femur will sometimes slip out of the socket, since the joint is loose, which cases the hip to dislocate.
This is very painful because the outside of the hip takes a direct hit or blow causing the inner hip to bruise and restrict movement.
 
 
 
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