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Adverb

from the hip ‎(not comparable)

1. Instinctively; without planning ahead.
   • 1980, New Statesman:

     Hasluck tells the story at a rapid pace and with racy charm. There is some refreshingly Australian talking from the hip. "When a company's being milked, you don't look for a bucket under its tits. You look up its arse."

   • 1993, Linda Myers, Approaches to Computer Writing Classrooms: Learning From Practical Experience, page 86:

     By necessity, then, most of us were teaching from the hip.

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