jack rabbit
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of jack rabbit
1860–65; jack(ass) + rabbit; so named from the size of its ears
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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
Diego Schwartzman, the 5-foot-7, Argentine ball-blasting jack rabbit who has willed his way to the impressive world ranking of No. 12, got the set.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 6, 2018
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
“They don’t want old moo-out-to-pasture me. They want the jack rabbit, they want the young blood. They want him and they want his friends.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2016
Three of them fanned out each way, right and left, and came zooming around in a circle like coyotes bent upon cutting off the retreat of a jack rabbit.
From A Yankee Flier in Italy by Rutherford George Montgomery
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