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

  • Rabbits are herbivores.
  • The rabbit is skipping.
  • He placed a rabbit in a warren.
  • They took the rabbit to the pit.
  • The rabbit and the monkey laughed.
  • The rabbits are brown in the summer.
  • But rabbits come and eat the lettuce
  • The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit.
  • The only rabbit to be widely domesticated is the European Rabbit.
  • They are herbivorous animals and smaller relatives of rabbits and hares.

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