Hip (disambiguation)
# 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
