Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A hippopotamus.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as hypo.
- n. A colloquial abbreviation of hippopotamus.
Wiktionary
- n. Short form of hippopotamus.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as hippopotamus.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria
- n. massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa
Examples
“The hippo is gently herded around and then into one of the rings.”
“COOPER: All right, I never thought I'd hear the word hippo mucus, but ...”
“At first I thought this resembled a "hippo" - but the ears aren't right for a hippo they have little rounded upright ears - this animal has floppy ears.”
“- Kills the "hippo" - highest paid person opinion - noise that the old systems have”
“short answer in Greek hippo = horse in English hippo = fat African Marsh herbovoire e.g. hippo”
“The kids tell me that the supervising adults are not attuned or even paying attention to those moments when they are rejected from a lunch table, being called a hippo in the hallway, or even when they eat their lunch in the bathroom in order to avoid being seen eating alone in the lunch room.”
The Huffington Post: Barbara Greenberg: School: A Great Place for Bullying
“The hippo was a disaster waiting to happen and Thwacker wanted him dead.”
“Peter the guide beguiled us with well-rehearsed stories about how the hippo is the deadliest of all the jungle beasts, how to stand if a hyena attacks, and which snakes and spiders would kill you instantly and which take a while.”
“An 8 year old girl was standing there not knowing what this hippo was all about.”
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
“His hippo is a rounded benign little fellow, all chubby cheeks and worried eyes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hippo’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
Animals
pig, camel, ant, ape, donkey, badger, bat, beaver, bee, cat, dog, cow and 82 more...
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Hip, hip, hooray!
"I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis."
--Zaphod Beeblebroxhip, hips, hipster, Hip, hip, hooray!, rosehip, hippo, hip-huggers, Hippocratic oath, hippocampus, eohippus, hippocrepian, hippie and 30 more...
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animals (2 syllable)
A list of common animal names. Keep the list to 2 syllable words.No scientific names. No proper names like 'Fluffy' the elephant.Insects and other creatures (even ficticious like 'dragon') are we...
baboon, rabbit, raptor, dragon, camel, hornet, llama, cobra, cheetah, penguin, puppy, dolphin and 86 more...
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Fun with Apocopes
Words created by removing the end of a longer or original word. See also Fun with Aphesis.
abs, ad, bio, veg, veggie, tux, auto, bike, carbs, pecs, bro, sis and 186 more...
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The braggadocio recipe
A selection of English* words ending with a vowel (except "y", "ea", ie", "ee", "oo", "ea", "ou") that is REALLY pronounced.
My favorite English words, by the way.
The good twin of The ...braggadocio, recipe, encyclopedia, solo, gnu, flu, maybe, apocope, mini, arrhythmia, folio, stereo and 197 more...
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soph2's Words
serendipity, audacity, groak, petrichor, lethologica, loganamnosis, agnuopia, dysania, dysphagia, neologism, incredulity, harbinger and 246 more...
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Spacegal's Words
mesmerise, elephant, meercat, hippo, chartreuse, acerbic, kiss, mango, strawberry, humuhumunukunukua..., waimanolo, ocean and 11 more...
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Name Suggestions for Even Bigger SUVs...
Watch out, Hummer!
A companion list to Name Suggestions for Ultra-Compact Cars. :-) Sounds best when you preface each word with "the."behemoth, monstrosity, leviathan, goliath, colossus, brute, giant, mammoth, brobdingnagian, jumbo, bulk, elephant and 69 more...
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words with letters in alphabetical order
abbey, abbot, abort, accent, accept, access, accost, adept, adopt, aegis, affix, afoot and 41 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hippo.
bilby WeirdNet's referring to Hippo Regius. Jun 15, 2009
madmouth srsly. do you know anyone who lives in a hippo? Jun 15, 2009
mollusque Short for hippopotamus, Weirdnet. Jun 15, 2009