rabbit
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ɪt noun, plural rab·bits ( especially collectively ) rab·bit for 1–3.
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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 developed young in the open.
2.
any of various small hares.
3.
the fur of a rabbit or hare, often processed to imitate another fur.
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pull a rabbit out of the hat, to find or obtain a sudden solution to a problem: Unless somebody pulls a rabbit out of the hat by next week, we'll be bankrupt.
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rabbit (ˈræbɪt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl -bits, -bit | |
| 1. | any of various common gregarious burrowing leporid mammals, esp Oryctolagus cuniculus of Europe and North Africa and the cottontail of America. They are closely related and similar to hares but are smaller and have shorter ears |
| 2. | the fur of such an animal |
| 3. | informal (Brit) a novice or poor performer at a game or sport |
| —vb | |
| 4. | (intr) to hunt or shoot rabbits |
| 5. | informal (Brit) (intr |
| [(sense 5) C20: from rhyming slang rabbit and pork talk] | |
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Word Origin & History
rabbit
late 14c., "young of the coney," from Fr. dialect (cf. Walloon robète), dim. of Flem. or M.Du. robbe "rabbit," of unknown origin. The adult was a coney (q.v.) until 18c.
"Zoologically speaking, there are no native rabbits in the United States; they are all hares. But the early colonists, for some unknown reason, dropped the word hare out of their vocabulary, and it is rarely heard in American speech to this day. When it appears it is almost always applied to the so-called Belgian hare, which, curiously enough, is not a hare at all, but a true rabbit." [H.L. Mencken]Rabbit punch "chop on the back of the neck" so called from resemblance to a gamekeeper's method of dispatching an injured rabbit. Rabbit's foot "good luck charm" first attested 1879, in U.S. Southern black culture. Pulling rabbits from a hat as a conjurer's trick is first recorded 1877.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
Season the rabbit with salt and pepper and place in a non-corrosive dish.
It's a kind of magic act that works best when a student pulls the rabbit out of the hat.
The hat with the fake bottom, which conceals a rabbit.
They've created lab-grown collagen, artificial bladders and even reconstructed damaged rabbit penises.
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