hipshot

“No degree of the allegorical avoided an excuse to present an impudently hipshot youth, or a captive maiden in some appealing form of restraint”

“Slocum [...] watched the horses and mules. Most stood hipshot, sleeping on their feet, nothing bothered them.”

“The two stubby horses, dusty and sweaty from the road, were standing hip-shot and bored, and Bernan sat on the driver's box with reins slack and his elbows on his knees.”