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A bizarre world, where everyday rules do not apply.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
A way into such a world.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, usually
Examples
- These mushrooms will take you down the rabbit hole, man.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: looking-glass
Antonyms: none provided
A time-consuming tangent or detour, often one from which it is difficult to extricate oneself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, figuratively
Examples
- Near-synonym: rabbit trail (regiolectic)
- I'm also a fan of a really obscure book series, but that's a rabbit hole that we won't get into.
- While writing my paper, my research went down several rabbit holes that were only marginally related and wasted a lot of my time.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: wild-goose chase, rabbit trail[regiolect]]ic>
Antonyms: none provided
The initial clue that leads to an alternate reality game.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Topics: games, gaming
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: trailhead
Antonyms: none provided
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rabbit, hole. The entrance to a rabbit warren or burrow; the whole warren or burrow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: latibulum[Appendix:Glossary, cuniculus
a hole in the ground as a nest made by wild rabbits
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rabbit burrow
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hole, hollow
From rabbit + hole. Extended senses reference Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, where Alice travels down a rabbit hole into a bizarre world.
Across languages
Translations
52 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Danish:
kaninhul
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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Dutch:
konijnenhol
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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Finnish:
kaninkolo
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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French:
terrier (de lapin)
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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German:
Kaninchenloch
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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German:
Kaninchenhöhle
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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German:
Kaninchenbau
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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Greek:
κουνελότρυπα
(kounelótrypa)
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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Hungarian:
nyúlüreg
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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Hungarian:
nyúlodú
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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Hungarian:
nyúl ürege/odúja/odva/vacka
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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Icelandic:
kanínuhola
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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Irish:
poll coinicéir
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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Irish:
súil choinicéir
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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Irish:
rapach
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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Irish:
poll coinín
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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Polish:
królicza nora
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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Spanish:
madriguera
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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Spanish:
entrada de una madriguera conejil
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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Spanish:
boquete de una madriguera conejuna
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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Swedish:
kaninhål
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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Swedish:
kaninhåla
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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Swedish:
kaningryt
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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Volapük:
kroligahog
— (entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow
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German:
Trip
— bizarre world
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German:
Wunderland
— bizarre world
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German:
Nonsenswelt
— bizarre world
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Polish:
królicza nora
— bizarre world
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French:
méandre
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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French:
dédale
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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French:
écheveau
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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German:
Abschweifung
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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German:
Abstecher
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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German:
Nebengleis
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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German:
zeitaufwendiges Unterfangen
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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Hungarian:
bonyodalom
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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Hungarian:
rejtelmek
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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Hungarian:
szövevény
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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Hungarian:
útvesztő
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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Hungarian:
(detour) kitérő
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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Hungarian:
kacskaringó
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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Hungarian:
mellékvágány
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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Hungarian:
vargabetű
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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Polish:
królicza nora
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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Spanish:
jardín
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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Spanish:
madriguera conejil
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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Spanish:
agujero conejuno
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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Spanish:
meterse en honduras
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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Swedish:
tidsdödare
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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Swedish:
utsvävning
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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Swedish:
distraktion
— time-consuming tangent or detour
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Polish:
królicza nora
— gaming: clue that leads to an alternate reality game
