rabbit
IPA: rˈæbʌt
noun
- A mammal of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.
- (uncountable) The meat from this animal.
- (uncountable) The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.
- 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.
- (cricket) A very poor batsman; selected as a bowler or wicket-keeper.
- (computing theory) 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.
- Rarebit; Welsh rabbit or a similar dish: melted cheese served atop toast.
- A pneumatically-controlled tool used to insert small samples of material inside the core of a nuclear reactor.
- The fourth of the twelve-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
verb
- (intransitive) To hunt rabbits.
- (US, intransitive) To flee.
- (Britain, intransitive) To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.
- Confound; damn; drat.
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Examples of "rabbit" in Sentences
- Remove the rabbit from the soak and roll in seasoned flour.
- I had never heard the term rabbit trails before, only goat trails, LOL.
- Yes macing an innocent rabbit is wrong, but I see a small hint of humor in this.
- You could also practise speech marks and question makrs – if your rabbit is asking questions – or this might be a little too advanced for Kindergarten.
- A week after Christmas, Macy's was unloading furs at outtahere prices like $378 for a "rabbit" coat -- "rabbit" is Chinese for cat, cat lovers be forewarned!
- A rabbit is pulled from a hat, your card is instantly guessed, an object disappears from a hand and appears behind your ear, and a woman who was split in half is put back together.
- To sink into those wide feather beds and sleep the round of the clock while the old women washed and dried their clothes for them; to eat rabbit stew and pommes frites in the garden, rabbit stew made with red wine and chestnuts.
- Sometimes in their rambles in the woods, they started a wild hare, which they called a rabbit, who fled away from them with long leaps, and was soon out of sight, so that they could hardly catch a glimpse of him in his rapid flight.
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