Definition of "hippopotamuses" [hippopotamuses]

• Plural form of hippopotamus. (noun)

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• "A polite way of saying "hookers with the appetites of hippopotamuses in heat.""
• "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."
• "Well, punts are the hippopotamuses of touch football."