- [countable] a small animal with soft fur, long ears and a short tail. Rabbits live in holes in the ground or are kept as pets or for food.
- a rabbit hutch
Extra ExamplesTopics Animalsa2- A frightened rabbit will bolt for its hole.
- Rabbits breed very fast.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + rabbit- catch
- chase
- hunt
- …
- hop
- jump
- breed
- …
- fur
- skin
- hole
- …
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- [uncountable] meat from a rabbitTopics Fooda2
Word Originlate Middle English: apparently from Old French (compare with French dialect rabotte ‘young rabbit’), perhaps of Dutch origin (compare with Flemish robbe).
Idioms
See rabbit in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybreed like rabbits
- (informal, often offensive) to have a lot of babies in a short space of time
pull something/a rabbit out of the hat
- (informal) to suddenly produce something as a solution to a problem
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