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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of several species of large prairie-hares, notable for the length of their limbs and ears, as Lepus campestris, L. callotis, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of jackrabbit.
Examples
“At table, while eating rice and jack-rabbit curry (the latter shot by Ferguson), they talked it over, and Daylight found the little man had no food "views.”
“Milda was fourteen years old, an unadulterated broncho, and in temperament was a combination of mule and jack-rabbit blended equally.”
“A jack-rabbit bounded from a bush under his horse's nose, leaped the stream, and vanished up the opposite hillside of scrub-oak.”
“I f you agree - and only if you agree - Progressive Insurance will give you a device to install in your car that will rat you out for jack-rabbit starts and slamming on the brakes.”
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“And quick as a jack-rabbit, Dale explained that Hawaii was actually the last stop and Santa needed to get to the island kids, so that they could share in the Christmas Booty.”
“Tom Croft, at last, was invited to play as he has done for Leicester and the Lions, and Youngs's slick pass and calm authority, and his jack-rabbit try, made an equal impression.”
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“Penn and Beatty wanted to achieve the jagged, kinetic style of a filmmaker like Godard, who used taboo devices like jump cuts to create the kind of jack-rabbit velocity they wanted to drive Bonnie and Clyde.”
“Stay there!" shouts I to Willy, and then had my charger down that slope like a jack-rabbit.”
“Don't really want to floor it, you know, the jack-rabbit start.”
“He grew up jack-rabbit hunting with his friends and was a member of the local South Dallas Twilights "gang.”
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