bunny suit

noun

1
: a costume or garment that is imitative of a rabbit and typically has large, often pink ears
… Nicholson would wear a pink bunny suit at Easter and walk around the offices giving out candy.Marty Hughley
2
: a usually white garment that covers the entire body and that is worn by workers to prevent contamination (as in a clean room)

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For Chandler, a pink bunny suit costume activates his sensitive nature, while Phoebe deals with the wiles of her evil twin Ursula. Cady Lang, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024 Zeigler made his way back out of the airlock and began stripping off his bunny suit. Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024 Engineers custom built a sealed clean room with a 24-foot ceiling, and anyone entering had to don head-to-toe white bunny suits and blue latex gloves, lending day-to-day activities the ambience of a crime scene. Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024 When speaking to Jada Pinkett Smith on Red Table Talk in 2021, Keanu revealed that his mother made Parton’s iconic bunny suit for her famous 1978 Playboy cover. Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2024 In the clean room, personnel wore bunny suits covering their clothing, shoes, and hair to ensure that fabric fibers, hair, and skin cells didn’t contaminate the container. WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023 The Masked Singer host, 42, made sure to spend time with each of his kids on Sunday, visiting with all 11 children and taking several photos with his little ones while dressed up in an Easter bunny suit. Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2023 To enter the farm, Kawasaki and I don clean-room bunny suits, face masks, and rubber boots, step on a sticky mat, walk through an air shower, and exit into the plant room. IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018 Ann Eden, dancing onstage, was mesmerizing to him—charismatic and unrestrained, whether dancing provocatively on the stage or circulating among the customers in her little bunny suit. Town & Country, 1 Nov. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1916, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of bunny suit was in 1916

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“Bunny suit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bunny%20suit. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.

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