rabbit food

noun

Informal.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of rabbit food¹

1905–10, for literal sense

Example Sentences

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

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“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.

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The growing multitude of people camped out at the bottom of the hill plays a role in the rapidly escalating tensions that go beyond Nami’s distress about being served nothing but “rabbit food.”

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“The one that will finally answer the question — are salads really rabbit food?”

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It's real food for real men — not the "rabbit food" that's reserved for ladies and lesser men.

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