Definition of "rabbit" in Anglais

noun

1. A mammal of most genera of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.

   • The pioneers survived by eating the small game they could get: rabbits, squirrels and occasionally a raccoon.

2. (uncountable) The meat from this animal.

   • She was cooking rabbit stew for dinner.

3. (uncountable) The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.

4. A runner in a distance race whose goal is mainly to set the pace, either to tire a specific rival so that a teammate can win or to help another break a record; a pacesetter.

5. (cricket) A very poor batsman, selected as a bowler or wicket-keeper.

6. (cricket) A batsman who is frequently dismissed by the same bowler (said to be that player's rabbit).

   • Glenn McGrath dismissed Michael Atherton a record 19 times; hence Atherton is McGrath's rabbit.

7. (computing theory) A large element at the beginning of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to be quickly swapped into its correct position. Compare turtle.

8. Rarebit; Welsh rabbit or a similar dish: melted cheese served atop toast.

9. A pneumatically-controlled tool used to insert small samples of material inside the core of a nuclear reactor.

   • This rabbit is constructed such that only that fraction of the beam that passes through the 15g-in. diameter target container reaches the Faraday cup behind the rabbit.

10. (genericized trademark) A vibrator with a shaft and a clitoral stimulator usually shaped like a rabbit's ears.

verb

1. (intransitive) To hunt rabbits.

2. (US, intransitive) To flee.

   • The informant seemed skittish, as if he was about to rabbit.
   • When the three friends heard someone behind them yell, "police, freeze!" they each rabbited in a different direction.

verb

1. (British, intransitive) To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.

   • Stop your infernal rabbiting! Use proper words or nobody will listen to you!

verb

1. Confound; damn; drat.