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rabbit-oh

rabbit-oh is the alternative form of rabbit-o.

Meaning of rabbit-o

Noun

rabbit-o (plural rabbit-os)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, historical) Someone who sells rabbits for food, especially an itinerant salesman.
    • He would have anyone to his house who would come – bishops and rabbit-ohs, limping ex-servicemen and flash characters from the racetrack.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 11

Forms of rabbit-oh

pluralrabbit-ohs

Origin of rabbit-oh

From rabbit + -oh.

Questions about rabbit-oh

What is rabbit-oh the alternative form of?
Rabbit-oh is the alternative form of rabbit-o.

Words near rabbit-oh in the dictionary

  1. rabbit-hearted
  2. rabbit-hole
  3. rabbit-holes
  4. rabbit-holing
  5. rabbit-o
  6. rabbit-oh
  7. rabbit-ohs
  8. rabbit-os
  9. rabbit-proof
  10. rabbit-rat
  11. rabbit-rats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rabbit-oh (page history and authors); rabbit-o (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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