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Hurts hip making contact with panels (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

injuries

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'hurts' is the definition.
('injury' can be a synonym of 'hurt')

'hip making contact with panels' is the wordplay.
'hip making contact' becomes 'in' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'panels' becomes 'juries' ('jury' can be a synonym of 'panel').
'in'+'juries'='INJURIES'

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(Other definitions for injuries that I've seen before include "Wounds" , "Traumas to the body" .)

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