rabbit

n 1: any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae

having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and

raised for pets or food [syn: {coney}, {cony}]

2: the fur of a rabbit [syn: {lapin}]

3: flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or

domesticated) eaten as food [syn: {hare}]

v : hunt rabbits

wabbit

/wab'it/ [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal line

"You wascawwy wabbit!"] 1. A legendary early hack reported on

a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978; this may have

descended (if only by inspiration) from hack called RABBITS

reported from 1969 on a Burroughs 55000 at the University of

Washington Computer Center. The program would make two copies

of itself every time it was run, eventually crashing the

system.

2. By extension, any hack that includes infinite

self-replication but is not a {virus} or {worm}. See {fork

bomb} and {rabbit job}, see also {cookie monster}.

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