rabbit hole
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.95 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The initial clue that leads to an alternate reality game.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rabbit, hole. The entrance to a rabbit warren or burrow; the whole warren or burrow.
Example Sentences
- "These mushrooms will take you down the rabbit hole, man."
- "You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."
- "Tumbling down the rabbit hole, she encountered a whole new level of existence where the laws of physics were turned upside down, shaken inside out and taken to the cleaners."
- "Near-synonym: rabbit trail (regiolectic)"
- "I'm also a fan of a really obscure book series, but that's a rabbit hole that we won't get into."
- "While writing my paper, my research went down several rabbit holes that were only marginally related and wasted a lot of my time."