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ˈjack-ˈrabbit U.S.
[Short for jackass-rabbit (see jackass 5); so called from its long ears.]
One of several species of large prairie-hares (Lepus campestris, L. callotis, etc.), with remarkably long ears and legs. Also attrib. and fig.
1863N. S. Keith Let. 24 Aug. in Colorado Mag. (1940) XVII. 69 We saw wolves, buffalos, antelopes, jack-rabbits, prairie-dogs innumerable, deer, and birds of various sizes. 1882Harper's Mag. Nov. 869 The jack-rabbits speed to their holes with long kangaroolike bounds. 1897B. Harraden Hilda Strafford 215 She would never again go..chasing the jack-rabbits and the cotton-tails. 1906Chambers's Jrnl. July 538/1 For miles one may ride without seeing a living thing larger than a jack-rabbit. 1929W. Faulkner Sartoris iii. iv. 206 The mules flapped their jack-rabbit ears. 1961‘E. Lathen’ Banking on Death (1962) vii. 57 He was thrown backward by a jack-rabbit start from a stop sign. 1962Amer. Speech XXXVII. 269 Jack rabbit, a motorist who is proficient at watching the cross-street traffic light; when it turns yellow, he starts up and is into the intersection before the light in front of him has turned green. 1963D. P. Mannix All Creatures Great & Small xi. 180 We saw our first live jackrabbit just at dawn while crossing the plains of Nebraska. A big, white-tailed jack with black-and-white squares like signal flags on his long ears bolted across the road. 1972Guardian 16 Dec. 10/1 You surely have hit the jack-rabbit on the head with a fire-iron. |