rabbit

Less common meanings

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   chatterverbBritishintransitive

   To talk for a long time about boring or unimportant things, usually used with on.

   They rabbit on for hours about nothing.

   He kept rabbiting about his new car all evening.

   UsageUsually rabbit on, often about something.

   Similarchatter, babble, prattle, jabber, witter

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   sets the pacenouncountable or uncountable

   A runner whose job is to set a fast pace early in a race to help a teammate or break a record.

   Like a friend who walks fast at the front so everyone else speeds up to keep up.

   The rabbit led for three laps, then stepped off the track.

   Their team used a rabbit to wear out the favorite.

   Similarpacemaker, pacesetter, pacer

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   sex toynouncountable or uncountable

   A vibrator with a part that goes inside the vagina and a smaller part for the clitoris, usually shaped like rabbit ears.

   The rabbit is one of the most popular vibrators sold today.

   The rabbit has two motors and a soft tip.

   UsagePeople often say rabbit vibrator to be clear.

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   nouncountable or uncountable

   Melted cheese served over toast as a hot dish.

   The café serves Welsh rabbit, melted cheese over toast.

   On cold nights, Dad made Welsh rabbit with cheddar on toast.

   Similarrarebit

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   huntverbintransitive

   To go hunting for wild rabbits.

   In winter, the old farmer would rabbit with his ferrets.

   On Sundays, Dad and his friends went rabbiting in the fields with their dogs.

   UsageUsually go rabbiting.

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   fleeverbUSintransitive

   To run away fast.

   If things go wrong, we rabbit out the back door.

   When the alarm sounded, the burglars rabbited into the night.

   Similarbolt, flee, run, scarper, scram

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    weak batternouncountable or uncountable

    In cricket, a player who is very bad at batting, or whom one bowler gets out again and again.

    The number eleven was a hopeless rabbit with the bat.

    Every side has a rabbit who can barely block a single ball.

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    mild curseverbtransitive

    To curse something mildly because it annoys you.

    LORD D. There, Dick, d'ye hear how the tutorer talks? oh rabbit it! he can ladle you out of latin by the quart;—and grunts greek like a pig.

    1797, George Colman, The Heir at LawHere, rabbit it is a mild curse said out of annoyance.

    Similardrat, blast, darn, dash

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    noun

    In computing, a big item near the start of a list that moves to its correct spot quickly while sorting.
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    noun

    A tool pushed by air pressure that puts small samples into the middle of a nuclear reactor.