Hip
Hip adjective - Being in the latest or current fashion.
Usage example: hip sunglasses whose fancy prices will make you squint in disbelief
Smart is a synonym for hip in fashionable topic. In some cases you can use "Smart" instead an adjective "Hip".
Smart
Smart adjective - Being in the latest or current fashion.
Usage example: boutiques specializing in smart clothes for cosmopolitan women
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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And a few episodes later, Will comments that The Cosby Show is having a "hip, street smart niece" join the cast.
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Green Arrow notes he's smart enough that his eyes are not on Wonder Woman's "famous rack", but on her hip - where her Magic Lasso is.
Source: Comic Book / Identity Crisis -
Axel Foley (Murphy) is a hip, street-smart detective in early 1980s Detroit; as something of a loose cannon, he's not well respected by Da Chief, but the other guys on the force love him.
Source: Film / Beverly Hills Cop
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