rhino

n. a short way of saying rhinoceros — a large, heavy animal with one or two horns on its nose.

n. a colloquial clipping of rhinoceros, referring to the large perissodactyl ungulate.

“We saw a mother rhino and her calf during the safari trip.”

“Conservationists are working tirelessly to protect the black rhino from poachers in the national park.”

Informal

n. an old-fashioned word for money.

n. a slang term for money or cash. This sense is archaic and rarely encountered outside of nineteenth-century literature.

“The old story mentioned a man who was short of rhino and needed a loan.”

“In the Victorian underworld, 'ready rhino' was a common expression for having immediate access to liquid assets.”

Archaic · Slang