"hippo" meaning in English

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      "word": "pygmy hippo"
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          "ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 218:",
          "text": "There was an old hippo that had the bad habit of getting out on the bank and roaming at night over the station grounds.",
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          "ref": "1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"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.\"",
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          "ref": "2006 June 24, The Weekend Argus:",
          "text": "The Eastern Cape village whose dam has been taken over by a hippo will decide next week what happens to the animal.",
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        "Clipping of hippopotamus."
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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: mellow yellow"
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        "An armored personnel carrier used by the South African Defence Force."
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        "(historical, slang, South Africa) An armored personnel carrier used by the South African Defence Force."
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        "An overweight or obese person."
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        "(informal, derogatory) An overweight or obese person."
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        {
          "word": "fatass"
        },
        {
          "word": "fatso"
        },
        {
          "word": "fatty"
        },
        {
          "word": "whale"
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          "name": "Chess openings",
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        "Hippopotamus Defence."
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        "(informal, Chess) Hippopotamus Defence."
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    },
    {
      "word": "hippo fly"
    },
    {
      "word": "hippo grass"
    },
    {
      "word": "pygmy hippo"
    },
    {
      "word": "velvet hippo"
    }
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          "text": "There was an old hippo that had the bad habit of getting out on the bank and roaming at night over the station grounds.",
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          "ref": "1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: mellow yellow"
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        "An armored personnel carrier used by the South African Defence Force."
      ],
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        "(historical, slang, South Africa) An armored personnel carrier used by the South African Defence Force."
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        "An overweight or obese person."
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        "(informal, derogatory) An overweight or obese person."
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        "(informal, Chess) Hippopotamus Defence."
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