rabbit food
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rabbit food
1905–10, for literal sense
Example Sentences
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"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
In place of the rabbit food, he sought help from his mother, who served on the draft board.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2017
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 Seaman, Owen, Sir
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