The hippopotamus is a semiaquatic mammal weighing thousands of pounds. Whether seeing one or learning about it, read funny hippo puns.
Hippo is short for hippopotamus. It’s a semiaquatic mammal native to Africa.
Today, you can find a hippo in many zoos.
There are two species of hippos, the common or river, and the pygmy.
A pygmy hippo weighs up to 600 pounds, while the common hippo weighs up to 5 tons.
While huge, they can charge up to 14 miles per hour.
If you’re ready to laugh, read the following hippo puns.
Funny hippo puns
1. It was a hippo-thetical question.
2. Don’t be a hippo-crite.
3. I’m so hippo to see you.
4. It’s time to hippo-party-mus.
5. Wear layers in cold weather to prevent hippo-thermia.
6. What’s your hippo-thesis?
7. The fastest hippo travels at hippo-sonic speed.
8. It’s a hippo-tenuse triangle.
9. I have a hippo-allergenic dog.
10. Hip-pose for the photo.
11. A group of islands full of hippos is an arc-hippo-lago.
12. I hippopota-miss you.
13. The difference between a hippo and a zippo is that one’s heavy, and the other’s a little lighter.
14. That’s a hippo-lice officer.
15. We’re the complete hippo-site of each other.
16. You have a nice hippopotamus-tache.
17. They’re being hippo-critical.
18. The trendy hippo is a hipster-potamus.
19. A hippo that uses foul language is a hippo-potty-mouth.
20. For dessert, hippos eat hippopota-mousse.
21. A hippo that raps is a hip-hop-otamus.
22. The rock has hippopota-moss growing on it.
23. I’d like to get your hippo-pinion.
24. The hippo’s looking for a bathroom to hip-poo.
25. Hippos vote by taking a hippo-ll.
26. I love reading hippo-etry.
27. The hippo went to the doctor for a hippo-peration.
28. A positive hippo is a hippo-optimist.
29. There’s a sweet potato and a hippo-tato.
30. I’m writing a hippo-em.
31. A hippo that has nothing to do is a hippo-bored-amus.
32. I hippopotamus-t finish the job.
33. The famous hippo writer is Edgar Allen Hippo-e.
34. I enjoy riding on a hippo-go stick.
35. I’m wearing a hippopota-mask.
36. It smells hippopotamus-ty.
37. Watch out for the hippo-le.
38. We’re two peas in a hippo-pod-amus.
39. Let’s sip-po on a few drinks.
40. When you cross a dog with a hippo, you get a hippo-paw-tamus.
41. When you cross a golfer with a hippo, you get a hippo-par-tamus.
42. You can heal a sick hippo with a hippo-tion.
43. The coolest hippo is a hippo-awesome-mus.
44. It’s hippo-preciation day.
45. They made a hippo-ster.
46. It was a hippo-pscale restaurant.
47. It has hippo-tential.
48. The speaker was on the hippo-dium.
49. An unorganized hippo is a hippopota-mess.
50. The material is hippopota-mesh.
51. A hippo that’s easy to move is a hippo-porta-mus.
52. Let’s not get hippo-litical.
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