jack rabbit
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of jack rabbit
1860–65; jack(ass) + rabbit; so named from the size of its ears
Example Sentences
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It looked like the work of a jack rabbit, he said, which must have been trying to get at the moisture in the stem.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2021
On social media, users share videos of Messi’s slipping passes through improbably tight spaces, corkscrewing shots past sprawling goalkeepers, darting around defenders like a jack rabbit navigating a gantlet of sloths.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2019
“A jack rabbit is actually a hare,” Jo Caskey said.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2019
I grew up loving and rescuing animals: two badgers, a gopher, a jack rabbit, five baby squirrels and a great horned owl.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2018
Mike, who had adapted himself to wagon life, sniffed eagerly at a bunch of grass in which a jack rabbit had rested.
From The Lost Wagon by Kjelgaard, James Arthur
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