hippo

Definition

Clipping of hippopotamus.

Example Sentences

• "There was an old hippo that had the bad habit of getting out on the bank and roaming at night over the station grounds."
• ""I've seen them buryin' a chief up the Aruwimi River, and they ate a hippo that must have weighed as much as a tribe.""
• "The Eastern Cape village whose dam has been taken over by a hippo will decide next week what happens to the animal."