Crossword clues for jackrabbit
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1863, American English, shortening of jackass-rabbit (1851), so called for its long ears. Proverbial for bursts of speed (up to 45 mph).
Wiktionary
n. any of several large North American hares of the genus ''Lepus'' vb. (context US English) To make a sudden, rapid movement
WordNet
n. large hare of western North America
Wikipedia
Jackrabbits are mammals in the same family as the rabbits. All Jackrabbits are actually hares. The word jackrabbit comes from a book by Mark Twain, in which he describes the creature as a jackass rabbit, on account of the hare's ears looking as though they belonged to a donkey. Later on this term shortened to Jackrabbit. The six species are:
- Antelope jackrabbit
- Black-tailed jackrabbit
- White-sided jackrabbit
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit
- Black jackrabbit
- White-tailed jackrabbit
Jack rabbit or Jackrabbit may also refer to:
Usage examples of "jackrabbit".
The road was as straight as a shot of grain alcohol, and the jackrabbits, well, each individual rabbit had the right to make his or her own choice when it came to crossing the path of an onrushing Airstream turkey.
The Jackrabbit had rented pasturage there, partially sheltered from the icy blasts, to the Grasshopper and the Wilddog in the winter months, and they were well paid for this in cattle and horses.
You better stay up here in the mountains whar you belong and live on roots and nuts and jackrabbits like the other Piutes, red or white!
This part of the country was too settled for large game, but Billy kept Saxon supplied with squirrels and quail, cottontails and jackrabbits, snipe and wild ducks.
As the land grew hillier and rockier, she began to see frequent signs for dude ranches as well as glimpsing some of the local wildlife: quail, jackrabbits, and wild turkey.
Toyota Elites replaced Jackrabbits, and Mitsubishi Nightskys took the place of Westwind 2000s.
People who claim to know jackrabbits will tell you they are primarily motivated by Fear, Stupidity, and Craziness.
The point I meant to make here -- before we wandered off on that tangent about jackrabbits -- is that everything in this book except the footnotes was written under savage deadline pressure in the traveling vortex of a campaign so confusing and unpredictable that not even the participants claimed to know what was happening.
VI Osterman cut his wheat that summer before any of the other ranchers, and as soon as his harvest was over organized a jackrabbit drive.
He caught turtles and rattlesnakes, found the eggs of geese and ducks, stampeded a small buffalo herd to kill a calf, once shot a young forked horn who came to see what he was, and one day on a plain of short grass he chased a jackrabbit until it was so weak and confused that he could lean down from his galloping mare and grab its ear with his bare hand.
As they got within a tough rifle shot of the ring of tipis on a rise, an old maniac in a crow feather cloak with his face painted red and black came tearing toward them on foot, followed by a mess of kids and dogs, to shake a turtle-shell rattle at them and sound off like a jackrabbit caught in a bobwire fence.
That night they camped in the low hills and they cooked a jackrabbit that Blevins had shot with his pistol.
The boats sprinted out of the way like startled jackrabbits, then headed at full throttle toward the mouth of the harbor where they disappeared in the darkness.
A couple of black-tailed jackrabbits passed him, hopping and then landing and coming erect with their tall ears swiveling like radar dishes.
He'd been a crack shot as a kid: could stun a jackrabbit at forty yards.