▪ a club hostess or waitress wearing a skimpy costume with ears and a tail suggestive of a rabbit.
▪ a person of a specified type or in a specified mood: "athletes and gym bunnies are rarely seen without a source of fluid close at hand"
2. a victim or dupe.Australian
Word Originearly 17th century (originally used as a term of endearment to a person, later as a pet name for a rabbit): from dialect bun ‘squirrel, rabbit’, also used as a term of endearment, of unknown origin. bunny (sense 2 of the noun) dates from the early 20th century.