Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having long or large ears, like those of a rabbit; lagotic: as, the rabbit-eared bandicoot or native rabbit of Australia, Macrotis lagotis.
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- adjective Having
ears resembling those of a rabbit
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Examples
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I for one am exhausted just thinking about it and have decided to let my (rabbit-eared) TV go dark in two days.
Comics on the Screen 2009
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Every day in West Berlin, I'd wake up and turn on a rabbit-eared television.
Lorelei Kelly: Meet the New Soviets: Gingrich, Walker, Breitbart Lorelei Kelly 2011
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Every day in West Berlin, I'd wake up and turn on a rabbit-eared television.
Lorelei Kelly: Meet the New Soviets: Gingrich, Walker, Breitbart Lorelei Kelly 2011
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She was at her desk, Maury on rabbit-eared television, half-eaten cheeseburger Happy Meal before her.
Don't Forget Zitana 2010
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Part of the routine requires watching 5 minutes of television from a small rabbit-eared box on my bureau.
Archive 2009-06-01 doyle 2009
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At minimum, they were rabbit-eared, and any group that functions rabbit-eared deserves to be pilloried.
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That means that a giant, rabbit-eared cat shows up near the end of the film without any reason or explanation; its demise moments later has some sort of emotional resonance with the villain, yet the audience cannot relate at all.
Ray – The Guy Who Hates Everything – Reviews THE WATCHMEN! | Obsessed With Film 2009
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Part of the routine requires watching 5 minutes of television from a small rabbit-eared box on my bureau.
1-888-CALL-FCC doyle 2009
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First she clicks on the tiny, rabbit-eared portable sitting on a shelf in the back room of Chez Maven and watches the old-fashioned way.
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First she clicks on the tiny, rabbit-eared portable sitting on a shelf in the back room of Chez Maven and watches the old-fashioned way.
Elaine Liner: TV Dilemma: When the Set Dies, What's a Maven to Do? 2008
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