The hip is an anatomical region and a joint.
Hip or HIP may also refer to:
Science and technology
- Hip bone, in adults one of the bones of the pelvis
- HIP, a prefix for a star in the Hipparcos Catalogue
- High-impact polystyrene 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
- HIP1R
- Head in pillow (metallurgy), a solder joint defect on BGAs
Computing
- Host-based intrusion-prevention system (HIPS), a computer security system
- Human interaction proof, a CAPTCHA
- Host Identity Protocol, a computer protocol
- Heterogeneous-compute Interface for Portability, a parallel computing platform by AMD, 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
Other uses
- 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)