Hip
Hip adjective - Having inside information.
Usage example: he wasn't hip to what was going on behind the scenes and was taken totally unawares by the company shake-up
Ready
Ready adjective - Being in a state of fitness for some experience or action.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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It features them re-cocking their guns when they're already ready to fire, shooting from the hip, and firing with their eyes closed.
Source: Reckless Gun Usage - Alex the rock star is ready to wow the crowd with his hip brand of radical rap-rock-metal fusion.
Source: Is This Thing On? - The trailer for Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation features a menacing version of "Ready or Not" by the former hip-hop group The Fugees.
Source: Dark Reprise
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Ready or Hip. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hip/ready.
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