Definition of "walrus"

walrus

/ˈwɔːl.ɹəs/

noun
plural walruses or walrus or walrusses or (both nonstandard, proscribed, uncommon and often humorous) walri or walrii
1. A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.
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  Of all the Phocine family none present so terrible and grotesque an appearance as the gigantic Walrus, also known as the morse and sea-horse.
  1887, James W. Buel, Sea and Land, page 251
2. (informal, sometimes derogatory) A man with a walrus moustache.
  Quotations
  You old walrus, don't you think it is time for you to lop your whiskers off?
  2008, James E. Martin, The Chartreuse Mongoose, page 145
  One, a rumpled, whiskered walrus of a man, held a lantern near Mother's face.
  2013, Marione Ingram, The Hands of War
verb
third-person singular simple present walruses or walrusses, present participle walrusing or walrussing, simple past and past participle walrused or walrussed
1. To hunt walruses
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  It's strange to see parties of merrymakers gather where I nearly drowned, and later walrused with David Isaakovich, Father Basil and the rest of them.
  2016, Andrey Kurkov, The President's Last Love, Kiev, 9 May 1985
2. To be like a walrus
  1. To move dragging one's belly along the floor
    Quotations
    Gaddy walrused herself from the back seat
    2020, Will Ferguson, The Finder: A Novel
  2. To hang like a walrus's moustache
    Quotations
    His untrimmed mustache walrused down and over his hidden mouth
    2000, Michael L. McCoy, The Hunter, the Hound and a Rogue
  3. To be prominent, like tusks
    Quotations
    Where a mammal had its canine teeth, great fangs walrused down from the grezzen's upper jaw, as long as scimitars and as thick as human thighs.
    2011, Robert Buettner, Overkill

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