The hip is an anatomical region and a joint.

Hip or HIP may also refer to:

Science and technology

  • HIP, a prefix for a star in the Hipparcos Catalogue
  • High-impact polystyrene (HIPS) or high-impact plastic
  • Hot isostatic pressing, a heat and pressure treatment applied to metals and alloys
  • Huntingtin Interacting Protein
  • Hip-1, Huntingtin Interacting Protein 1
  • HIP2, Huntingtin Interacting Protein 2, now UBE2K
  • HIP1R
  • Head in pillow (metallurgy), a solder joint defect on BGAs

Anatomy

  • Hip, an anatomical region and a joint
  • Hip bone, in adults one of the bones of the pelvis

Computing

  • Host-based intrusion-prevention system (HIPS), a computer security system
  • Human interaction proof, a CAPTCHA
  • Host Identity Protocol (HIP), a computer protocol
  • Heterogeneous(-compute) Interface for Portability, a parallel (GPU) computing platform by AMD and an alternative to CUDA by Nvidia

Organizations

  • Health Insurance Plan, see Health care finance in the United States
  • Health Insurance Plan of New Jersey, a defunct Health Maintenance Organization
  • Health Insurance Plan of New York, a Health Maintenance Organization
  • Healthy Indiana Plan, a health plan in Indiana that was established by Governor Mitch Daniels
  • Hillsborough Independent Panel; see Hillsborough disaster
  • Helsinki Institute of Physics, Finland

Places

  • Highams Park railway station (National Rail station code), England
  • Harlem Irving Plaza, an enclosed mall in Norridge, Illinois, commonly referred to as "The HIP"

Music

  • Hip (album), by the Danish band Steppeulvene
  • Hip Records, a record label
  • The Tragically Hip, a Canadian rock band also referred to as The Hip
  • Historically informed performance, a practice of performing European classical music on period instruments
  • "Hip", a single by South Korean girl group Mamamoo

Other uses

  • Hip Linkchain (1936–1989), American guitarist and singer
  • Hypertension in Pregnancy, a medical journal
  • Home Improvement Programme, in Singapore
  • Home Information Pack, a set of documents about a United Kingdom residential property
  • Hip (slang), a slang term meaning fashionably current
  • Mil Mi-8 "Hip", a Russian helicopter
  • Human Instrumentality Project, fictional term from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion

See also

  • Hip roof, a component of a roof
  • Rose hip, the fruit of the rose
  • Hip hip hooray, a cheer
  • Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
  • H!P
  • H1P (disambiguation)
  • HLP (disambiguation)