A port city in northeastern Missouri, on the Mississippi River, the boyhood home of Mark Twain; population 17,432 (est. 2008).
Rhymes
cannibal
Hannibal2
/ˈhanɪb(ə)l /
(247–182 bc), Carthaginian general. In the second Punic War he attacked Italy via the Alps, repeatedly defeating the Romans, but failed to take Rome itself.