Definitions for rabbit

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rabbit rab·bit

Spelling: [rab-it]

IPA: /ˈræb ɪt/

Rabbit is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in rabbit (abbirt).

Definitions for rabbit

noun

1. 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.
4. Welsh rabbit.
5. a runner in a distance race whose goal is chiefly to set a fast pace, either to exhaust a particular rival so that a teammate can win or to help another entrant break a record; pacesetter.
6. British Informal. a person who is poor at sports, especially golf, tennis, or cricket.
7. John Cornelius ("Johnny"; "Rabbit"; "Jeep") 1906–70, U.S. jazz saxophonist.

Idioms

1. pull a rabbit out of the hat, to find or obtain a sudden solution to a problem:

Origin of rabbit

1375-1425; late Middle English rabet(te) young rabbit, bunny, probably Old North French; compare Walloon robett, dialectal Dutch robbe

Examples for rabbit

He weighed only 185 pounds, but he had killer instincts and rabbit quickness and the stamina of a mule.

He eventually brings his wife and children over, and later he manages a hen and rabbit farm.

A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit.

Put the pieces of rabbit on a hot dish, and pour the gravy over them.

I looked and saw a huge gray squirrel with a tail like a rabbit.

He clavers them over with flattery as the snake clavers the rabbit.

Then she became aware that she no longer had the rabbit warren to herself.

He wanted to get rid of that rabbit, but the kids wanted it, so it stayed.

Because when my rabbit died he was like, “Want a new rabbit?”

With Big Eyes a lot of people, myself included, were glad to see you emerge from the rabbit hole that is the CG world.