Rabbit

Quick meaning: Rabbit is a noun meaning A mammal of most genera of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.

Meaning

A mammal of most genera of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) The meat from this animal.
2. (uncountable) The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.
3. (cricket) A very poor batsman, selected as a bowler or wicket-keeper.
4. (cricket) A batsman who is frequently dismissed by the same bowler (said to be that player's rabbit).
5. Rarebit; Welsh rabbit or a similar dish: melted cheese served atop toast.
6. 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.
7. (computing theory) 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.

Example Sentences

CHEESE TOASTED, OR RABBIT.

She was cooking rabbit stew for dinner.

Glenn McGrath dismissed Michael Atherton a record 19 times; hence Atherton is McGrath's rabbit.

The pioneers survived by eating the small game they could get: rabbits, squirrels and occasionally a raccoon.

Word Forms

• rabbits
• rabbiting
• rabbitting
• rabbited
• rabbitted

Synonyms for rabbit

Depending on context, synonyms include bunny, coney, cony, run off, scamper, bolt.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cony, hare, coney, cottontail, jackrabbit, bunny.

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