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What is a rabbit hole?

What is a rabbit hole? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see rabbit,‎ hole. (The entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow.
  2. (A way into) a bizarre world.
  3. A time-consuming tangent or detour, often from which it is difficult to extricate oneself.
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He seems to view this as a deep problem with economic theory, referring repeatedly to the rabbit hole into which free traders have fallen.
We need more real reporting and less reality TV shows, and then let's see how deep that rabbit hole is.
William finally holed out for twelve after playing bagatelle with a few trees, a rabbit hole and a water hazard that no-one had noticed before.
After 11 days trapped down a rabbit hole, the dog had been given up for dead.
He injured his ankle within 30 seconds of City's first training session at their Scottish training camp, twisting it in a rabbit hole.
This episodic tale, with no particular beginning or end, transfixes the reader with its trips up and down the rabbit hole of language.

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