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- noun Plural form of
hippopotamus .
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Examples
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Something about hippopotamuses and their limousines …
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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Almost everyone there is related to each other and they all look like hippopotamuses.
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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But they can't help being drawn into a world filled with other wildlife: rival safari operators, discontented guides, grumpy hippopotamuses.
The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander Mccall Smith: Book summary 2010
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The hippopotamuses are not actual hippopotamuses, they come from a village in Provence called Innebrède.
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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Something about hippopotamuses and their limousines …
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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You know that weird fact about how hippopotamuses kill more people than lions or tigers?
The 32 Rules of Thanksgiving Touch Football Jason Gay 2011
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It held only a meagre menagerie of mating pairs of alpacas, hippopotamuses, lemurs, musk oxen, and rats, along with one gazelle and one lion cub whose parents had both disappeared after chasing down and devouring the other gazelle.
The Arks What Weren't strannikov 2012
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A polite way of saying "hookers with the appetites of hippopotamuses in heat."
Will Durst: Helen Keller's Mushrooms Will Durst 2010
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Well, punts are the hippopotamuses of touch football.
The 32 Rules of Thanksgiving Touch Football Jason Gay 2011
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Almost everyone there is related to each other and they all look like hippopotamuses.
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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