Definition of Rabbit hole

1. Noun. A hole in the ground as a nest made by wild rabbits.

Exact synonyms: Rabbit Burrow
Generic synonyms: Hole, Hollow

Definition of Rabbit hole

1. Noun. (&lit rabbit hole) (qualifier the entrance to a rabbit warren) ¹

2. Noun. (From ''Alice in Wonderland'') A way into a bizarre world. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rabbit Hole

rabbit board
rabbit boards
rabbit brush
rabbit burrow
rabbit bush
rabbit ear
rabbit ear mite
rabbit ear mites
rabbit ears
rabbit fever
rabbit fibroma
rabbit fibroma virus
rabbit food
rabbit foot
rabbit haemorrhagic disease
rabbit hole (current term)
rabbit holes
rabbit hutch
rabbit moth
rabbit moths
rabbit myxoma virus
rabbit on
rabbit plague
rabbit punch
rabbit punches
rabbit starvation
rabbit stick
rabbit syndrome
rabbit test
rabbit warren

Literary usage of Rabbit hole

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (2007)
"CHAPTER I. DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE. ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do : once or twice she ..."

2. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"The wheatear builds its nest in a variety of situations: sometimes in a loose heap of stones, sometimes in a rabbit hole or beneath a heap of dried peats, ..."

3. Contributions to Economic Geology, 1903 by Samuel Franklin Emmons, Charles Willard Hayes (1904)
"The rabbit hole sulphur mines arc in northwestern Nevada, at the western base ... The mines derive their name from rabbit hole Springs, near which they are ..."

4. The Folk-lore Readers: Book Two by Eulalie Osgood Grover (1914)
"She was just in time to see him pop down into a large rabbit-hole under the hedge. ... rabbit hole."

5. The Magee Intermediate Reader: Part One, Fourth Year by Anna F. Magee, John Franklin Reigart (1922)
"... WONDERLAND LEWIS CARROLL DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do. ..."

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