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the body's master joint, balancing your whole weight on a ball smaller than a peach

means The joint where the thigh bone meets the pelvis, and the rounded part of the body on either side just below the waist.

from From Old English 'hype,' a word with deep Germanic rootsa cousin of Dutch 'heup' and German 'Hüfte.' The body-part sense is the original one; the unrelated slang 'hip' meaning fashionable or aware came much later and from murkier sources, so they only look like the same word by accident.

ball and socketone of only two such joints you own
load bearinghandles up to several times your body weight
fracture riskbreaks here can be fatal in elderly
replacementsover a million swapped out yearly worldwide
hidden depthsocket sits deep inside the pelvis
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