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rabbit food

American  

noun

Informal.
  1. raw vegetables, especially those used in salads, as lettuce, carrots, radishes, or celery.


Etymology

Origin of rabbit food

1905–10, for literal sense


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When Conagra’s vice president of culinary innovation Tom Frain first learned about growing adoption of GLP-1s, he envisioned being tasked with designing rabbit food made with kale and fiber supplements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

"They get everything they need from apples, carrots, and some dried rabbit food as well," he said.

From BBC ● May 18, 2025

“I know I used to think eating this way would be just like nibbling on sad and soggy carrots and rabbit food all day long,” she says.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

“Hi, animal lovers! Down at Harbor Shelter in San Pedro, we are totally out of rabbit food and hay for both rabbits and guinea pigs,” Bunker wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2022

Mr. William Aird, in a lecture upon "Health, Disease and Economical Living," insisted that we should all be much healthier if we lived on "rabbit food."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman

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