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rabbit

გამოთქმა: /ˈrabɪt/

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Universal
  • 1a gregarious burrowing plant-eating mammal, with long ears, long hind legs, and a short tail.
    • Family Leporidae: several genera and species, in particular the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), which is often kept as a pet or raised for food
  • [mass noun] the flesh of the rabbit as food: chunks of rabbit and chicken [as modifier]:rabbit pies
  • [mass noun] the fur of the rabbit.
  • North American term for hare.
  • informal a poor performer in a sport or game, in particular (in cricket) a poor batsman: he was a total rabbit with the bat
  • US a runner who acts as pacesetter in the first laps of a race.
  • Family Leporidae: several genera and species, in particular the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), which is often kept as a pet or raised for food
  • 2British informal a conversation:we had quite a heated rabbit about it
    [from rabbit and pork, rhyming slang for 'talk']

ზმნა

Universal
  • 1 (usually as noun rabbiting) hunt rabbits:locate the area where you can go rabbiting
  • 2British informal talk at length, especially about trivial matters:stop rabbiting on, will you, and go to bed!

breed like rabbits

informal reproduce prolifically: they drank like fishes and bred like rabbits

pull (or bring) a rabbit out of the (or a) hat

do something unexpected but ingeniously effective in response to a problem:everyone is waiting to see if the king can pull a rabbit out of the hat and announce a ceasefire the Finance Minister pulled a few rabbits out of the hat to balance the Budget last year

rabbity

adjective

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