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Jackrabbit

verb

Go forward or start with a fast, sudden movement.

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"Jackrabbit" Quotes from Famous Books

... think he'd raise the roof. And the speed he gets out of that dinky little roadster is amazin'. Might have been all right on smooth macadam, but on this country road he had her jumpin' around on that short wheel-base like a jackrabbit with the itch. We might have been so many kernels of pop-corn being shaken over a hot fire. Barry seems to be enjoyin' every minute of it, though. He makes funny cracks, whistles, and now and ...

— Torchy and Vee • Sewell Ford

... passed coolly and pleasantly. Trees and bushes did not allow many glimpses of the outside world. The dogs that barked were behind farmhouse gates, and we had use for our stones only at an occasional jackrabbit. "At" is a convenient preposition. It gives one latitude. Jackrabbits on the Riviera are not like human products of the south. They jump quickly. They jump, too, in directions that cannot be foretold. After one particularly bad throw, ...

— Riviera Towns • Herbert Adams Gibbons

... time an ambitious sportsman of San Francisco, who wanted to kill something bigger than a duck and more ferocious than a jackrabbit, read about Pinto and persuaded himself that he was bear-hunter enough to tackle the old fellow. He went to Fort Tejon, hired a guide and made an expedition to the Castac. The guide took the hunter to Spike-buck Spring, which is at the head of a ravine under the limestone ...

— Bears I Have Met—and Others • Allen Kelly

Words linked to "Jackrabbit" : start, whitetail jackrabbit, genus Lepus, Lepus, startle, hare, jump, Lepus californicus, Lepus townsendi, white-tailed jackrabbit