1. Any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food
   "Wild rabbits darted across the field";
   - coney, cony
    
2. The fur of a rabbit
   "The hat was trimmed with soft rabbit fur";
   - lapin
    
3. Flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food
   "The hunter prepared braised rabbit for dinner";
   - hare

1. Hunt rabbits
   "They rabbited in the fields"
    
2. [Brit, informal] Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
   "The old man rabbited on about the weather";
   - chatter, piffle [informal], palaver [informal], prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle [informal], clack [informal], maunder, prattle, blab [informal], gibber, tattle, blabber [informal], gabble, vapour [Brit, Cdn], vapor [US], jibber-jabber, witter [Brit, informal], twattle [UK, dialect], yatter [Brit, informal], yabber [informal]

Sounds like: quotas, qurabbit

Derived forms: rabbited, rabbiting, 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, Peter