Definitions

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  • adjective Resistant to rabbits.

Etymologies

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rabbit +‎ -proof

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Examples

  • The settlers think it will be impossible, because of their “rabbit-proof fence,” to have any more aboriginal movement, i.e. Walk-a-bouts, or spiritual journeys native people traditionally made without informing their enslavers.

    Rabbit-Proof Fence: Humanity Will Not Fail Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009

  • The settlers think it will be impossible, because of their “rabbit-proof fence,” to have any more aboriginal movement, i.e. Walk-a-bouts, or spiritual journeys native people traditionally made without informing their enslavers.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009

  • If it works – and if it proves rabbit-proof – it could change the whole job.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Jean 2009

  • The publication of the list probably means that the great rabbit-proof fence plan will no longer enjoy much parliamentary support.

    p2pnet World Headlines – May 14, 2009 2009

  • If it works – and if it proves rabbit-proof – it could change the whole job.

    Jean's Knitting Jean 2009

  • Good to know that Ed also has no idea why Australia feels they need rabbit-proof fences — after all, the rabbits only make the ecosystem different, right?

    Matthew Yglesias » Carping 2007

  • They run away from the school and follow the path of the rabbit-proof fence hundreds of miles knowing that the fence runs next to their land and will lead them home.

    Tim Giago: Cultural Genocide in the Land of the Free 2009

  • The publication of the list probably means that the great rabbit-proof fence plan will no longer enjoy much parliamentary support.

    p2pnet World Headlines – May 14, 2009 2009

  • The story, based on a factual account, focuses on three children who were kidnapped but fled their captors, then navigated a 1,200-mile journey home not by the stars but by following a rabbit-proof fence bisecting the continent.

    Down-Under Epic 'Australia': Grandly Over Top 2008

  • The movie is the story of their escape and their attempt to get home, a 1,500-mile journey along a rabbit-proof fence.

    Noyce: Double Integrity 2007

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