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 (19361989), 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)