单词 | hippo whip |
释义 | > as lemmashippo whip hippo whip n. a long whip made from a twisted strip of hippopotamus hide. ΚΠ 1884 C. G. Gordon Jrnl. 25 Sept. in Jrnls. at Kartoum (1885) 67 Cassim gave him a wipe over the head with his Hippo whip. 1917 H. K. W. Kumm Afr. Missionary Heroes & Heroines ii. 34 Through the long grass trailed the last of the victims, driven onward by the lashes of the hippo whips. 2011 New Times (Kigali, Rwanda) (Nexis) 8 Sept. Gosh! Would that police moved around with a hippo whip for such accursed drivers! < as lemmas |
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