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Antonyms for hippopotamus
ˌhɪp əˈpɒt ə məs; -ˌmaɪhip·popota·mus

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  1. hippopotamusnoun

    Synonyms:
    river horse

  2. hippopotamusnoun

    Synonyms:
    hippo, river horse

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  1. hippopotamus, hippo, river horse, Hippopotamus amphibiusnoun

    massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa

    Synonyms:
    river horse, hippo

How to use hippopotamus in a sentence?

  1. Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1850:

    I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

  2. Mitch Hedberg:

    Is a hippopotamus really a hippopotomus or just a really cool opotamus?

  3. Pat Conroy:

    The Death of Santini, for two years, I’ve tried to satisfy my great interior hunger with a diet that would satisfy a full-grown squirrel but did little to conquer the hippopotamus that lives within me.

  4. Hilaire Belloc:

    I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

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