Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal An indoor television antenna consisting of two usually adjustable rods connected to a base and swiveling apart at a V-shaped angle.
Wiktionary
- n. An indoor dipole television antenna consisting of two usually extensible rods connected to a base to form a V shape.
- n. Plural form of rabbit ear.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an indoor TV antenna; consists of two extendible rods that form a V
- n. the long ears of a rabbit
Etymologies
- From the shape of the ears of a rabbit. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Then they did their normal good-night signal, two rabbit ears that waved up and down, and then the light went out.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rabbit ears’.
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Not edible
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that's just beastly!
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Pluralia Tantum
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Ear Ear!
Ear words and phrases. A companion piece to b-see--the-eyes-have-it-b and the-nose-knows.
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Animalia Wordia
Words or short phrases with animal names in them. Since I already have a dedicated list for 'monkey' words I shall leave them out of this one for the moment.
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R is for Red Clown
My R Words
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Tweets
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treeseed The most common dipole antenna is the "rabbit ears" type used with televisions. While theoretically the dipole elements should be along the same line, "rabbit ears" are adjustable in length and angle.
A dipole antenna, developed by Heinrich Rudolph Hertz around 1886, is an antenna with a center-fed driven element for transmitting or receiving radio frequency energy. These antennas are the simplest practical antennas from a theoretical point of view.
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In the days before cable television rabbit ears sat on top of the TV to help reception. They usually had a small round or oval shaped plastic base that had two long metal wands that could be adjusted projecting up from the base. Feb 3, 2008