rhino

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See also: rhino-

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Alternative forms

Noun

rhino (uncountable)

  1. (slang, now rare) Money.
    • 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anne St. Ives, vol. III.52:
      When so be as a man has no money, why then, a savin and exceptin your onnur's reverence, a's but a poor dog. But when so be as a man as got the rhino, why then a may begin to hold up his head.
    • 1835, Frederick Marryat, The Pacha of Many Tales:
      There I fell in with Betsy, and as she proved a regular out and outer, I spliced her, and a famous wedding we had of it, as long as the rhino lasted.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC:
      —Here you are, says Alf, chucking out the rhino. Talking about hanging, I'll show you something you never saw

Etymology 2

Clipping of rhinoceros.

Noun

rhino (plural rhinos)

  1. (colloquial) A rhinoceros.
    • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 24:
      ‘We were getting a grand shot of a charging rhino when the cameraman got scared and bolted. The fathead!’
    • 1961 October, “Talking of Trains: B.R. exile at work?”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586:
      This cutting from an East African newspaper caught our eye last month: "The up mail train from Mombasa was held up for an hour at Kibwezi by an angry rhino on Monday night."
Derived terms
Translations

French

Etymology

Clipping of rhinocéros.

Pronunciation

Noun

rhino m (plural rhinos)

  1. (informal) rhino
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