What does rhino mean?
Rhino means (slang, now rare) Money..
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/ˈɹaɪ.nəʊ/ · noun
(slang, now rare) Money..
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.
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.
—Here you are, says Alf, chucking out the rhino. Talking about hanging, I'll show you something you never saw
‘We were getting a grand shot of a charging rhino when the cameraman got scared and bolted. The fathead!’
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."
Use rhino when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Rhino means (slang, now rare) Money..
Common synonyms include rhinoceros.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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