bunnies

Noun (1)

bunny (plural bunnies)

1. (childish, informal) A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
   • Scary-looking rabbits were hopping around Fort Collins. These weren’t your standard cute, fluffy bunnies; they had horn-like growths protruding from their faces and bodies.2025 August 14, Angela Haupt, “What to Know About the Horned ‘Zombie’ Rabbits Hopping Around Colorado”, in TIME, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2025
2. A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
   • ‘Gwen has a job as a bunny because says she's sick of sex.’1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, Flamingo 1993 edition, page 578
3. In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
4. (dated, euphemistic, slang) A menstrual pad.
   • A local chemist remembers: My grandmother made home-made sanitary towels from a type of muslin. They were hand-knitted, washed and re-used. Other women used netting and cotton wool. Home-made towels were known as 'bunnies'.1992, Maureen Sutton, We Didn't Know Aught, page 17
5. Synonym of rabbit (“batsman frequently dismissed by the same bowler”).

   Synonyms:

   rabbit

Noun (2)

bunny (plural bunnies)

1. (UK, dialectal) A swelling from a blow; a bump.

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