Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rhinoceros.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of
rhinoceros . - noun Money; cash.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Cant Gold and silver, or money.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang, archaic
money - noun Short form of
rhinoceros .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout
Etymologies
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Examples
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So this is a really interesting race simply because most Republicans consider Chaffee to be what they call a rhino, which is Republican in name only.
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So this is a really interesting race simply because most Republicans consider Chaffee to be what they call a rhino, which is Republican in name only.
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In today's world of politics, you better have a tough skin ... rhino skin.
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Durer's rhino is fabulously armored, but Oudry's is a real individual.
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My sources in U of SA write there are more elephants now than there were 150-years ago and that black rhino is making a comeback.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The name rhino came about for operational reasons.
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Last year, a Javan rhino, which is one of the world's rarest mammals, was found dead in a Vietnamese national park with its horn chopped off.
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Borneo Sumatran rhinos are a subspecies of the Sumatran rhino, which is the world's smallest rhino species, standing little more than 4ft 120cm at the shoulder.
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Last year, a Javan rhino, which is one of the world's rarest mammals, was found dead in a Vietnamese national park with its horn chopped off.
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I can't decide if the bunnies or the rhino are my fave.
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December 29, 2008