rabbit
(ræbɪt )
Word forms: rabbits , rabbiting , rabbited
countable noun A2
A rabbit is a small furry animal with long ears. Rabbits are sometimes kept as pets, or live wild in holes in the ground.
Rabbit is the flesh of this animal eaten as food.
...rabbit stew.
Phrasal verbs:
rabbit on
phrasal verb [usually cont]
If you describe someone as rabbiting on, you do not like the way they keep talking for a long time about something that is not very interesting. [British, informal, disapproval]
What are you rabbiting on about? [V P + about]
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Idioms:
pull a rabbit out of the hat [journalism]
to unexpectedly do something which solves a problem or helps you to achieve something
I cannot pull a rabbit out of a hat every time I go into the boxing ring. All I can do is do my best.
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someone is like a rabbit caught in the headlights
said to mean that someone is so frightened or nervous that they do not know what to do
He just sat there, like a rabbit caught in the headlights.
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Collocations:
rabbit run
Underneath the complex is a rabbit run of underground tunnels and bunkers.
The Sun (2011)
Some gardeners put all their pots in a wire cage (a rabbit run would do) until the plants have emerged.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Translations:
Chinese: 兔子
Japanese: ウサギ
- chicken leg
- chicken meat
- chicken out
- chicken pie
- chickenpox
- chicken pox
- chicken salad
- chicken sandwich
- chicken satay
- chickens come home to roost
- chicken shed
- chickenshit
- chicken skewer
- chicken skin
- chicken soup
- chicken stock
- chicken thigh
- chicken wing
- chicken wire
- chick fledges
- chick flick
- chick lit
- chickpea
- chick pea
- chickweed