white rabbit
Someone or something which moves rapidly or hurriedly from place to place.
rabbit
/ˈɹæbɪt/
noun 5verb 4name 1
Collocations
7(noun.)
VERB + RABBIT
hunt, shoot, trap | skin
RABBIT + VERB
hop, jump
bolt, run
The rabbit ran across the garden when it heard the dog barking.
breed
Wild rabbits breed multiple times each year, which is why their population grows so quickly.
RABBIT + NOUN
fur, skin
burrow, hole, hutch, warren
My pet rabbit escaped from its hutch and hid under the garden shed for two days.
Definitions
noun
1
A mammal of most genera of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.
The pioneers survived by eating the small game they could get: rabbits, squirrels and occasionally a raccoon.
Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
2
The meat from this animal.
She was cooking rabbit stew for dinner.
3
The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.
4
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.
5
A very poor batsman, selected as a bowler or wicket-keeper.
verb
1
To hunt rabbits.
2
To flee.
The informant seemed skittish, as if he was about to rabbit.
When the three friends heard someone behind them yell, "police, freeze!" they each rabbited in a different direction.
verb
1
To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.
Stop your infernal rabbiting! Use proper words or nobody will listen to you!
Ah start tae feel her up, while rabbitin a load ay shite ahoot how we huv tae stick thegither at a time like this.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
the rabbit died
Indicates one's own pregnancy, or that someone has found out they are pregnant.
Robin finally was able to announce: "Good news! The rabbit died!" She said she was thrilled and that everybody was happy for her except her mother.
horse and rabbit stew
A mixture of the crude and the delicate in grossly unequal quantities, with the crude overwhelmingly dominant.
Also, in alleging that nonmarket parameters are not measurable, in some sense, proponents of the argument from horse and rabbit stew appear to forget that ...
pull a rabbit out of a hat
To do something surprising and beneficial that is unexpected.
But Salmond the magician's dazzle has not pulled those crucial rabbits out of his hat. Not on tax and spending, on the currency union which he wants (but rUK does not), on Scotland
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The pioneers survived by eating the small game they could get: rabbits, squirrels and occasionally a raccoon.
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Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an
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She was cooking rabbit stew for dinner.
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The informant seemed skittish, as if he was about to rabbit.
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When the three friends heard someone behind them yell, "police, freeze!" they each rabbited in a different direction.
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The attacked man stressed to the GCN the importance of confronting someone who is harassing a person in the Fenway. He said the attack on him could have been prevented if another man who was in front
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