Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
hippopotamus .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And as the clang was still reverberating across the city, our friends saw two terrified hippolike guys dressed in only tattered rags and underwear run out of the Hôtel Frainche-Fraille and disappear around the nearest corner.
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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And as the clang was still reverberating across the city, our friends saw two terrified hippolike guys dressed in only tattered rags and underwear run out of the Hôtel Frainche-Fraille and disappear around the nearest corner.
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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There was a giant, horse-sized hyrax; several primitive carnivores, some as small as a weasel, others as massive as a grizzly bear; ancestral elephants, rhinos, and pigs; an odd hippolike animal called an anthracothere; and primitive ruminants related to giraffes.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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There was a giant, horse-sized hyrax; several primitive carnivores, some as small as a weasel, others as massive as a grizzly bear; ancestral elephants, rhinos, and pigs; an odd hippolike animal called an anthracothere; and primitive ruminants related to giraffes.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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The hippo finally hippolike, but still something wrong ... the grin venal-the greasy smirk of a carny barker ...
Devil's Waltz Kellerman, Jonathan 1992
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