rabbit
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Sense 1
- noun
- A1
A small animal with long ears, soft fur and a short tail, kept as a pet or living wild in holes in the ground.
Wild rabbits had dug holes all along the edge of the field.
My sister keeps a grey rabbit in a hutch behind the house.
The rabbit pressed its long ears flat and sat completely still.
A pair of rabbits can produce young several times a year.
Common collocations: wild rabbit · pet rabbit · rabbit hutch · keep rabbits · a rabbit hole
Part of: Animals, Meat and fish
Sense 2 · less common
- verb
- C1
To keep talking for a long time about something that is not interesting.
He rabbited on about his new car for twenty long minutes.
Stop rabbiting on and tell me what actually happened yesterday.
Common collocations: rabbit on about something · rabbit on for hours
Part of: Speaking, Talking to people
Forms
- plural
- rabbits