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
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: 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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With its loud machines, safety procedures, and protective bunny suits, the clean room isn’t a typical workplace.
—Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2025
There’s the Simplicity sewing pattern used to make the bunny suit; metal toys from the department store window display; several iconic outfits, like Randy’s bib and puffy maroon coat, the bathrobe worn by Ralphie’s mom (Melinda Dillon); and one of the six custom Red Ryder BB guns used in the movie.
—Annie Zaleski, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2024
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
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Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2025
There’s the Simplicity sewing pattern used to make the bunny suit; metal toys from the department store window display; several iconic outfits, like Randy’s bib and puffy maroon coat, the bathrobe worn by Ralphie’s mom (Melinda Dillon); and one of the six custom Red Ryder BB guns used in the movie.
—Annie Zaleski, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2024
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
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“Bunny suit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bunny%20suit. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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