Complete Definition of "hipshot"

English
Etymology
From hip + shot.

Pronunciation
IPA|/�hɪp��t/

Adjective
en-adj

  1. Having a dislocated hip.
  2. dated clumsy|Clumsy, awkward.
  3. US|colloquial Standing with one hip lower than the other.

#*2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 686:
#*:No degree of the allegorical avoided an excuse to present an impudently hipshot youth, or a captive maiden in some appealing form of restraint

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