Hip (disambiguation)

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

Computing

• Host-based intrusion-prevention system (HIPS), a computer security system
• Human interaction proof, a CAPTCHA
• Host Identity Protocol, a computer protocol

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)