rabbit, noun

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U.S. EnglishShow more Related to Afrikaans hasie hare, but cf. also U.S. English (homosexuals’ slang) rabbit prostitute who sells sex to persons of his or her own sex.
prison slang, school slang
hasie sense 2.
1949 H.C. Bosman Cold Stone Jug (1969) 90‘And they also say you’re a sodomite’...‘They say you are some blue-coat’s rabbit.’
1949 H.C. Bosman Cold Stone Jug (1969) 158I was glad to have these little presents. But I was also embarrassed by his attentions. I was scared the warders and convicts would think I was homosexual, and that I was Pym’s rabbit.
1984 Informant, TransvaalThe regular term of my school-days [for a homosexual] was rabbit and bunny boys — hasie is a new one to me.
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