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 (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
 * 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 (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
 * 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