jack-rabbit

I f you agree - and only if you agree - Progressive Insurance will give you a device to install in your car that will rat you out for jack-rabbit starts and slamming on the brakes.

'Precommitment' devices as a safeguard against failure Daniel Akst 2011

And quick as a jack-rabbit, Dale explained that Hawaii was actually the last stop and Santa needed to get to the island kids, so that they could share in the Christmas Booty.

Writer(s) in the House « Write Anything 2009

At table, while eating rice and jack-rabbit curry (the latter shot by Ferguson), they talked it over, and Daylight found the little man had no food "views."

Chapter IX 2010

Milda was fourteen years old, an unadulterated broncho, and in temperament was a combination of mule and jack-rabbit blended equally.

FOUR HORSES AND A SAILOR 2010

A jack-rabbit bounded from a bush under his horse's nose, leaped the stream, and vanished up the opposite hillside of scrub-oak.

Chapter VIII 2010

"Stay there!" shouts I to Willy, and then had my charger down that slope like a jack-rabbit.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

Tom Croft, at last, was invited to play as he has done for Leicester and the Lions, and Youngs's slick pass and calm authority, and his jack-rabbit try, made an equal impression.

Ben Youngs and Chris Ashton lead new England to victory in Australia Robert Kitson at the ANZ Stadium 2010

Penn and Beatty wanted to achieve the jagged, kinetic style of a filmmaker like Godard, who used taboo devices like jump cuts to create the kind of jack-rabbit velocity they wanted to drive Bonnie and Clyde.

STAR PETER BISKIND 2010

Don't really want to floor it, you know, the jack-rabbit start.

CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2009 2009

He grew up jack-rabbit hunting with his friends and was a member of the local South Dallas Twilights "gang."

Suzanne Deal Booth: Thinking About Memorial Day and My Father 2008