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Noun: rabbit  ra-bit
  1. Any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food
    - coney, cony
     
  2. The fur of a rabbit
    - lapin
     
  3. Flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food
    - hare
Verb: rabbit  ra-bit
  1. Hunt rabbits
     
  2. [Brit, informal] Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
    - chatter, piffle, palaver [informal], prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle [informal], clack [informal], maunder, prattle, blab [informal], gibber, tattle, blabber [informal], gabble, vapour [Brit, Cdn], vapor [US], twattle [UK, dialect], witter [Brit, informal], yabber [Brit, informal], yatter [Brit, informal]

Sounds like: quotas, qurabbit

Derived forms: rabbiting, rabbited, rabbits

Type of: fur, game, hunt, hunt down, leporid, leporid mammal, mouth, pelt, run, speak, talk, track down, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize

Part of: cottontail, cottontail rabbit, European rabbit, hare, Old World rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, warren, wood rabbit

Encyclopedia: Rabbit, Run