hip-shot, a. (n.)
Also hip-shotten.
[f. hip n.1 + shot, pa. pple. of shoot v.]
1. Having a dislocated hip-joint; having the hip out of joint.
| 1639 T. de Grey Compl. Horsem. 240 How doe you cure a horse that is hip-shot? 1799 Sporting Mag. XIV. 185 To be hipped or hipshot is to have one hip lower than the other. 1877 Ohio State Jrnl. 16 May, A hipshot, windbroken horse. |
2. fig. Lame, clumsy; disabled, ‘out of joint’.
| 1642 Milton Apol. Smect. iv. 86 He has not spirit enough left him so far to look to his syntax, as to avoid nonsense..This hipshot grammarian. 1661 Needham Hist. Eng. Reb. 70 Reformation, thou stalking horse of our hip-shotten state. |
B. n. Dislocation of the hip-joint.
| c 1720 W. Gibson Farrier's Dispens. xiv. (1734) 277 For a Hip-shot, or Dislocation. 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict., Hip-Shot..befals these Animals many Ways, sometimes by the Wrench or Stroak of another Horse, and at other Times by a Slip, Strain, Sliding or Falling. |