Rabbit: noun - a burrowing
and gregarious plant-eating mammal of the family Leporidae, order Lagomorpha, with
long ears and a short stumpy tail; something resembling a rabbit; in Naval and
Australian slang - a smuggled or stolen article; a pneumatically or
hydraulically propelled container used to carry material into a nuclear reactor
etc.; conversation, talk - in rhyming slang; rabbit-and-pork.
‘Whenever Daphne came across her old boyfriend in company
with a pregnant girlfriend, she would accuse him of breeding like a rabbit,
even though he’d avoided that fate with her.’
‘God, that bloke doesn’t ‘alf rabbit on; never stops
yakking.’
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