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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rhino
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lion/rhino/stag etc hunt
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ The design is of a black rhino.
▪ A survey of black rhinos in the Matusadona park found only 15, compared to an estimated population of 150.
▪ The black rhino is particularly vulnerable.
white
▪ Up to 70 white rhinos had been recorded in 1992.
▪ There are only 40 of the northern white rhinos left in the world, Rieches said.
▪ I saw the new white rhino there and shat my pants with fear.
■ NOUN
horn
▪ Officials say about 1.4 tonnes of rhino horn stockpiled, but conservationists claim the real figure is up to 10 tonnes.
▪ Prices were sky high, with rhino horn worth four times as much as ivory, and still rising.
▪ More sinister are the deaths in suspicious circumstances of two army officers who were investigating the rhino horn trade.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Charlie crashed into a wall and bounced off it like a rubber rhino.
▪ Judy, who has been here since November 1986, has given birth to five rhinos.
▪ Of the five rhino species there are just over 8,000 left, Javan rhinos number 50 and Sumatran rhinos 800.
▪ The cameras snapped an average of one rhino every five days.
▪ The design is of a black rhino.
▪ The devices will allow national park staff to monitor rhino movements 24 hours a day.
▪ Up to 70 white rhinos had been recorded in 1992.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rhino

Rhino \Rhi*no\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] Gold and silver, or money. [Cant]
--W. Wagstaffe.

As long as the rhino lasted.
--Marryat.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rhino

short for rhinoceros, 1884. As slang for "cash" (also rino) 1680s, of unknown origin. Hence cant rhinocerial "rich" [Grose, 1788].

Wiktionary
rhino

Etymology 1 n. Short form of rhinoceros. Etymology 2

n. (context slang archaic English) money

WordNet
rhino

n. massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout [syn: rhinoceros]

Wikipedia
Rhino (wrestler)

Terrance Guido Gerin (born October 7, 1975) is an American professional wrestler and politician, better known by his ring name Rhino (also spelled Rhyno). He is currently signed to WWE, competing on the SmackDown brand.

Rhino previously appeared in WWE from 2001 to 2005 and again in their developmental system NXT from 2015 to 2016. He also worked for Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) from 1999 to 2001, with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) from 2005 to 2010 and again in 2014 and with Ring of Honor (ROH) from 2011 to 2013.

He is a two-time world champion, having held the ECW World Heavyweight Championship and NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Other titles held by Rhino over the course of his career include the WCW United States Championship, the ECW Television Championship, and WWE Hardcore Championship.

Rhino (comics)

Rhino is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Although more than one character has assumed the identity of the Rhino, the first of these, and the one primarily associated with that identity, is Aleksei Sytsevich, who was created by writer Stan Lee and artist John Romita, Sr., and first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #41 (Oct. 1966).

Debuting in the Silver Age of Comic Books, the Rhino has been featured in other Marvel-endorsed products such as animated television series, arcade and video games, and merchandise such as action figures and trading cards.

A version of the Rhino using powered battle armor, portrayed by Paul Giamatti, appeared in the 2014 film The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Rhino (disambiguation)

Rhino is an abbreviation of rhinoceros. Rhino or The Rhino may also refer to:

Rhino (JavaScript engine)

Rhino is a JavaScript engine written fully in Java and managed by the Mozilla Foundation as open source software. It is separate from the SpiderMonkey engine, which is also developed by Mozilla, but written in C++ and used in Mozilla Firefox.

RHINO (squat)

RHINO was a famous squat in Geneva, Switzerland. It occupied two buildings on the Boulevard des Philosophes in downtown Geneva, a few blocks away from the main campus of the University of Geneva. RHINO housed about seventy people before its evacuation in July 2007 and had been occupied by the squatters since 1988. The RHINO project (which stands for "Retour des Habitants dans les Immeubles Non-Occupés", return of inhabitants to non-occupied buildings) also operated an independent cinema in its basement, the Cave 12, as well as a bar, restaurant and concert space on the ground floor called Bistro'K.

The two buildings' facades are often decorated with protest art, usually promulgating leftist political messages or generally the right to occupy the buildings. The buildings are instantly recognizable by the large red horn (which seems to be made of papier-maché) installed on the wall.

The RHINO organisation often faced legal troubles, and Geneva police evicted the inhabitants on July 23, 2007.

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Then, blundering about and bellowing like a wounded rhino, he staggered out front and shoveled a big sluiceway in the recently patched ditch bank, allowing almost the entire acequia flow to cascade into his already soggy front vega.

The big blobby thing practising golf swings with the Jabberwock is a Krell, and that rhino over there is Rataxis.

The hideous beast, resembling a stilt-legged rhino with a ceratopsian neck frill and wicked glowing eyes, minced in and out of the bodies without stepping on a single one.

A type of large rhino called an elasmotherium roamed across northern Eurasia.

Fifteen steps up from the second level, in one smooth motion, Jarry put the ordinary down, mounted it holding immobile the pedals with his feet, swung the Rhino Express off his shoulder, and rode the last crashing steps down, holding back, then pedaling furiously as his giant wheel hit the floor.

It caught a rhino in its vicious mouth, and the pachyderm disappeared.

It was the remains of a nashorn, a rhino ironclad and Remade into a veldt tank.

The vision twinkled, was clear for a moment, even clearer than the beast before him: there were those rhinos massed with one another like Robles and Muffy, blinking and seizing in the light.

Fulla, meanwhile, had created a zombified rhino and a small, hissing hydra.

When they drew nearer, Jondalar dashed ahead, trying to outdistance the last straggler -- a young rhino, not full grown and having a little trouble keeping up.

A sighting of the enormous, unpredictable rhinos, with two horns, the front one long and low-slung, and two coats of reddish fur, a soft downy underwool and an outer layer of long guard hair, always brought exclamations of wonder.

We passed birds, bears, apes, monkeys, ungulates, the terrarium house, the rhinos, the elephants, the giraffes.

With this rifle he had killed leopards, lions, rhinos, buffalos, elephants by the hundred-and men, many men, in the days of the Rhodesian bush war.

On the other side of the road grass alternated with managed forest, grass patrolled by falstaffian rhinos, who marked their territory with clouds of secretions expelled, pumped even, from their rear ends.

That indicated to Laussedat that humans had been contemporary with the fossil rhino in a geologically remote time.