Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hippopotamus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hypo . - noun A colloquial abbreviation of
hippopotamus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
hippopotamus .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Short form of
hippopotamus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria
- noun massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa
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Examples
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The hippo is gently herded around and then into one of the rings.
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The hippo is gently herded around and then into one of the rings.
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COOPER: All right, I never thought I'd hear the word hippo mucus, but ...
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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.
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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.
Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008
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- Kills the "hippo" - highest paid person opinion - noise that the old systems have
broadstuff Mark Cheverton 2009
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short answer in Greek hippo = horse in English hippo = fat African Marsh herbovoire e.g. hippo
CIA interrogations: "tough enough"? Ann Althouse 2007
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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.
Barbara Greenberg: School: A Great Place for Bullying Barbara Greenberg 2012
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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.
Barbara Greenberg: School: A Great Place for Bullying Barbara Greenberg 2012
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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.
Barbara Greenberg: School: A Great Place for Bullying Barbara Greenberg 2012
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Their opinions are known as HIPPOs — the highest paid person’s opinion — and are often the deciding factor in what decisions and next steps a team takes.
Velocity should be renamed “future tech debt” | Jeff Gothelf Jeff Gothelf 2021
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On a product I used to work on, the HiPPo (Highest Paid Person) in the room truly believed his ideas were genius and were the reason for all his business success.
Ways To Prioritize — From Worst to Best Cláudia Delgado 2022
mollusque commented on the word hippo
Short for hippopotamus, Weirdnet.
June 15, 2009
madmouth commented on the word hippo
srsly. do you know anyone who lives in a hippo?
June 15, 2009
bilby commented on the word hippo
WeirdNet's referring to Hippo Regius.
June 15, 2009
bilby commented on the word hippo
Overheard joke:
What's the difference between a hippo and a Zippo?
One's quite heavy, the other's a little lighter.
February 3, 2024