hiplet
/ˈhɪp.lət/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small hip (external angle formed by intersection of sloping roof planes).
Example Sentences
- "It's not clear who actually started the trend, but there are loads of gross videos of men saying they don't like women with "hiplets". "You owe it to your kids to not reproduce with a hiplet," one video says."
- "I'm so disappointed about women falling for the hiplet bait so easily"
- "By 1975, you might be interested to know, 75 percent of all stockings sold were in the pantyhose category. Twenty percent of the sales went for conventional stockings, and the remaining 5 percent for knee-highs or novelties, such as hiplet stockings."
- "The latest thing in the paresis jewelry line is the "Kneelet," a band of precious metal worn just above the knee. The skirt, of course, is slit to suit. Next, perhaps—we blush to think of it—will be the "thighlet," or possibly the "hiplet.""
- "The women have a swaying, snake-like dance with waving arms and jingling of bracelets and "hiplets," if I may be allowed to coin the word."
- "Everybody dresses up in his most gorgeous duds with lots of paint and feathers and the women with strings and strings of snail shell anklets, bracelets and hiplets, and instead of the plain bamboo tubes that many wear in a hole just below the lower lip, they have etched and decorated ones for this occasion."
Etymology
Etymology tree English hip Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Old French -eletbor. Middle English -let English -let English hiplet From hip or -let. The slang sense was coined by TikToker Damion Stalino (@damionstalino) in a TikTok posted on 21 June 2026. The term was presumably coined as a parody of manlet and its use as a derogatory term for short men.