hip and thigh

adverb

: in a fierce or ruthless manner

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These Amazon Essentials women’s high-rise, straight-leg jeans are slim through the hip and thigh while offering more room in the legs. — Christopher Murray May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2025 Composed of 100 percent cotton, these jeans fit through the hip and thigh, and then relax after the knee, defining your waist and lengthening your legs all at once. — Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2026 Neusch was acutely aware of nerve-equivalent impulses reporting the beam penetrating the light armor, searing the bio-andy’s hip and thigh. — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 26 June 2026 The denim skirts are available in both Classic and Curve Love, Abercrombie’s popular fit that eliminates waist gap and features additional room through the hip and thigh. — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for hip and thigh

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First Known Use

1560, in the meaning defined above

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hip and thigh

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