rabbit-o
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[edit]- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈɹæbədoʊ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹabɪtəʊ/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]- (Australia and New Zealand colloquial, now historical) Someone who sells rabbits for food, especially an itinerant salesman. [from 20th c.]
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 11:
- He would have anyone to his house who would come – bishops and rabbit-ohs, limping ex-servicemen and flash characters from the racetrack.
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