rabbit — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A mammal of most genera of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail. (Those of the larger kind are instead called hares)

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   The pioneers survived by eating the small game they could get: rabbits, squirrels and occasionally a raccoon.

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   Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

2. The meat from this animal.

   Usage

   • Uncountable

   Examples

   She was cooking rabbit stew for dinner.

3. The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.

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   • Uncountable

4. A runner in a distance race whose goal is mainly to set the pace, either to tire a specific rival so that a teammate can win or to help another break a record; a pacesetter.

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   • Countable
   • Uncountable

5. A very poor batsman, selected as a bowler or wicket-keeper.

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   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Synonyms

   walking wicket

6. A batsman who is frequently dismissed by the same bowler (said to be that player's rabbit).

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Synonyms

   bunny

   Examples

   Glenn McGrath dismissed Michael Atherton a record 19 times; hence Atherton is McGrath's rabbit.

7. A large element at the beginning of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to be quickly swapped into its correct position. Compare turtle.

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   • Countable
   • Uncountable

8. Rarebit; Welsh rabbit or a similar dish: melted cheese served atop toast.

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   • Uncountable

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   The cheese mixture may be served with toast on the side or poured on top of toast and grilled until golden brown and bubbling. Other variations include Buck rabbit, a Welsh rabbit with a poached egg on top, and Yorkshire rabbit with bacon ...

   CHEESE TOASTED, OR RABBIT.

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   Hannah Glasse offered recipes for Scotch, Welsh, and English rabbit. This is her Scotch rabbit: Toast a piece of bread very nicely […] Cut a slice of cheese, […]

9. A pneumatically-controlled tool used to insert small samples of material inside the core of a nuclear reactor.

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   • Uncountable

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   This rabbit is constructed such that only that fraction of the beam that passes through the 15g-in. diameter target container reaches the Faraday cup behind the rabbit.

10. A vibrator with a shaft and a clitoral stimulator usually shaped like a rabbit's ears.

    Usage

    • Countable
    • Uncountable

    Examples

    Rabbits come in many forms/In colors, shapes and sizes./ They satisfy a lady's needs,/Indulging her sweet vices.

    First, she showed us the standard dildos before moving on to the rabbits—vibrators with little ears to stimulate the clit.

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    She reached into her night stand for some lubricant and her rabbit vibrator.

Verb

1. To hunt rabbits.

   Usage

   • Intransitive

2. To flee.

   Usage

   • US usage
   • Intransitive

   Examples

   The informant seemed skittish, as if he was about to rabbit.

   When the three friends heard someone behind them yell, "police, freeze!" they each rabbited in a different direction.

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   The attacked man stressed to the GCN the importance of confronting someone who is harassing a person in the Fenway. He said the attack on him could have been prevented if another man who was in front of him prior to the attack hadn't "rabbitted out of there."

Verb

1. To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.

   Usage

   • UK usage
   • Intransitive

   Synonyms

   rabbit onblatherprattle

   Related words

   chew the fat

   Examples

   Stop your infernal rabbiting! Use proper words or nobody will listen to you!

   Ah start tae feel her up, while rabbitin a load ay shite ahoot how we huv tae stick thegither at a time like this.

Verb

1. Confound; damn; drat.

   Examples

   LORD D. There, Dick, d'ye hear how the tutorer talks? oh rabbit it! he can ladle you out of latin by the quart;—and grunts greek like a pig.

Noun

1. any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food

   Synonyms

   coneycony

   Broader terms

   leporidleporid mammal

2. the fur of a rabbit

   Synonyms

   lapin

   Broader terms

   furpelt

3. flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food

   Synonyms

   hare

   Broader terms

   game

Verb

1. hunt rabbits

   Broader terms

   huntrunhunt downtrack down