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The fourth of the twelve-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
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)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The meat from this animal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A very poor batsman, selected as a bowler or wicket-keeper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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Synonyms: walking wicket
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noun
A batsman who is frequently dismissed by the same bowler (said to be that player's rabbit).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Synonyms: bunny
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: computing, computing-theory, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Rarebit; Welsh rabbit or a similar dish: melted cheese served atop toast.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A pneumatically-controlled tool used to insert small samples of material inside the core of a nuclear reactor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A vibrator with a shaft and a clitoral stimulator usually shaped like a rabbit's ears.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: genericized trademark
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verb
To hunt rabbits.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To flee.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, intransitive
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verb
To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, intransitive
Synonyms: rabbit on
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verb
Confound; damn; drat.
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noun
any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: coney, cony
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Broader terms: leporid, leporid mammal
Narrower terms: rabbit ears, lapin, bunny, bunny rabbit, European rabbit, Old World rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, wood rabbit, cottontail, cottontail rabbit, Belgian hare, leporide, Angora, Angora rabbit
noun
flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: hare
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Broader terms: game
noun
the fur of a rabbit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: lapin
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Broader terms: fur, pelt
verb
hunt rabbits
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hunt, run, hunt down, track down
History
Inherited from Middle English rabet, rabette, from Anglo-Latin rabettus, from dialectal Old French rabotte, probably a diminutive of Middle Dutch or West Flemish robbe (“rabbit, seal”), of uncertain origin; possibly some imitative verb, maybe robben, rubben (“to rub”) is used here to allude to a characteristic of the animal. See rub. Related forms include Middle French rabouillet (“baby rabbit”) and in French rabot (“plane”)), coming via Walloon Old French (reflected nowadays as Walloon robète (“rabbit”)), from Middle Dutch robbe ("rabbit; seal"; whence Modern Dutch rob (“rabbit", also "seal”)); also Middle Low German robbe, rubbe (“rabbit”), and the later German Low German Rubbe, Robb (“seal”), West Frisian robbe (“seal”), Saterland Frisian Rubbe (“seal”), North Frisian rob (“seal”), borrowed into German Robbe (“seal”). Meant "young rabbit" until the 19th c., when it came to replace the original general term cony, owing to the latter's resemblance to and use as a euphemism for cunny, "vulva" (compare ass and donkey). Note that there is no inherited Germanic word for rabbits, since hares are the only leporids native to Britain (as with all of Europe outside the Iberian Peninsula and southwest France); rabbits were introduced from France in the late Middle Ages, likely after the Norman Invasion. (Fittingly, hare is indeed inherited from Proto-Germanic.)
From Cockney rhyming slang rabbit and pork, to talk.
Perhaps a corruption of rabate.
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