Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characterized by an exaggerated swinging movement of the hips.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having an
exaggerated swinging motion of thehips whenwalking
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Examples
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If you watch old black-and-white films of football from the leather-helmet days, you will see how well ball carriers seem to slip tackles and break away for swivel-hipped runs.
Joe Lapointe: Football Helmets As Weapons...Time to Ban the Kickoff? Joe Lapointe 2010
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If you watch old black-and-white films of football from the leather-helmet days, you will see how well ball carriers seem to slip tackles and break away for swivel-hipped runs.
Joe Lapointe: Football Helmets As Weapons...Time to Ban the Kickoff? Joe Lapointe 2010
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And the weirdest part for me is that this 911 is actually going to get better, when it is already such a ripping, scalping, torque-wrenching, swivel-hipped snake of a car.
Porsche's Magnificent First Stab at the New 911 Dan Neil 2012
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A ripping, scalping, torque-wrenching, swivel-hipped snake of a car—and that's just so far.
Porsche's Magnificent First Stab at the New 911 Dan Neil 2012
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If you watch old black-and-white films of football from the leather-helmet days, you will see how well ball carriers seem to slip tackles and break away for swivel-hipped runs.
Joe Lapointe: Football Helmets As Weapons...Time to Ban the Kickoff? Joe Lapointe 2010
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Dan Neil/The Wall Street Journal This 911 is actually going to get better, when it is already such a ripping, scalping, torque-wrenching, swivel-hipped snake of a car.
A Work in Progress? 2012
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If you watch old black-and-white films of football from the leather-helmet days, you will see how well ball carriers seem to slip tackles and break away for swivel-hipped runs.
Joe Lapointe: Football Helmets As Weapons...Time to Ban the Kickoff? Joe Lapointe 2010
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If you watch old black-and-white films of football from the leather-helmet days, you will see how well ball carriers seem to slip tackles and break away for swivel-hipped runs.
Joe Lapointe: Football Helmets As Weapons...Time to Ban the Kickoff? Joe Lapointe 2010
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She thrust them up in the shape of a V, then did a swivel-hipped pivot thing and checked her reflection once again.
The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading Charity Tahmaseb 2009
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She thrust them up in the shape of a V, then did a swivel-hipped pivot thing and checked her reflection once again.
The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading Charity Tahmaseb 2009
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