The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SCUT
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More clues leading to the result SCUT
- Tail useless ultimately, like a blind mouse?
- Head of stable clipped tail
- Last of dogs with docked tail
- The last bit of Peter Rabbit is ultimately axed
- Workers’ organisation’s turned tail
- Small incision in rabbit’s tail
- Rabbit’s tail trimmed to a point
- Tail from back of lioness docked
- Rabbit’s tail, small and trim
- Tail on rabbits, short?
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The straight part
We know that "Tail on rabbits, short" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case tail on rabbits, short = scut.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SCUT mean?
SCUT noun- A hare; a hare as the game in a hunt.
- A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
- (by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.
- A contemptible person.
- Distasteful work; drudgery; specifically some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.
- (originally Cumbria) To scamper off.