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jackrabbit



jack·rab·bit [ ˈjak-ˌra-bət]



jackrabbit   
noun
[ˈjak-ˌra-bət]

Definition of jackrabbit

: any of several large hares (genus Lepus) of western North America having very long ears and long hind legs



Recent Examples on the Web


//Running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire averaged nearly 6 yards per carry and left several Longhorns looking like kids trying, and failing, to corral a jackrabbit in an open field.
— Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, "Despite struggles, Texas DC Todd Orlando believes breakthrough is coming," 12 Sep. 2019
//The vast proliferation of topical humor that has resulted across various media has turned Mad into a tortoise among jackrabbits.
— Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, "Column: Alas, poor Mad magazine, pulled under by its own humor wave," 5 July 2019
//There’s not much between those cities except the dusty prairies and grasslands of the Great Plains, where the buffalo used to roam and where still the deer and the antelope play alongside prairie dogs, jackrabbits, and even rattlesnakes.
— Mary Ann Anderson, Twin Cities, "Lubbock is smack in middle of nowhere — and everywhere," 20 July 2019
//There were sudden inundations of green worms, then starving jackrabbits that swarmed out of the hills, darting eerily about.
— Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, "Where Our New World Begins," 10 May 2019
//Now, a new study shows how: by borrowing a gene from a jackrabbit, one of their long-eared cousins.
— Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, "How the snowshoe hare is losing its white winter coat," 21 June 2018
//One key souvenir from that mating: a jackrabbit version of agouti, the gene that normally revs up its activity and turns snowshoe fur white in the winter, the researchers report today in Science.
— Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, "How the snowshoe hare is losing its white winter coat," 21 June 2018
//Part of it was just a reaction to the sheer, mad as a March jackrabbit frenzy of the NCAA Tournament.
— Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, "March Madness 2018: How the media (blush) saved Ohio State -- Bill Livingston," 16 Mar. 2018
//One of the featured creatures is of the fantasy kind — a wolperdinger, Bavaria’s canine-fanged version of the Texas jackalope, a cross between a jackrabbit and an antelope.
— John Goodspeed, San Antonio Express-News, "German hunting, fishing museum spans history back to the stone age," 14 June 2018


First Known Use of jackrabbit

1863, in the meaning defined above



History and Etymology for jackrabbit

jack entry 1 (jackass) + rabbit; from its long ears



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