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   Rab·bit

   /ˈrabət/

   

   noun

   • 1. a burrowing, gregarious, plant-eating mammal with long ears, long hind legs, and a short tail.
   • ▪ the flesh of the rabbit as food.
   • ▪ the fur of the rabbit.
   • ▪ a hare.
   • ▪ a runner who acts as pacesetter in the first laps of a race.

   verb

   • 1. hunt rabbits: "locate the area where you can go rabbiting"
   • 2. talk at length, especially about trivial matters: informal British "stop rabbiting on, will you, and go to bed!"
   • 3. move quickly; run away: informal "he rabbited as soon as he saw us coming"

   Word Origin late Middle English: apparently from Old French (compare with French dialect rabotte ‘young rabbit’), perhaps of Dutch origin (compare with Flemish robbe).

   Derivatives

   • 1. rabbity adjective

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   Rabbit definition: any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully ...

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