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powwow bunny

powwow bunny
 n.— «A self-proclaimed owner of the “gift of gab,” Simpson talks while she works—about the dreamcatchers she’s making for her Native friends serving in Afghanistan, about how, despite her fondness for powwows, she has never become a “powwow bunny,” the term for a young woman who attends a different powwow every weekend.» —“Idaho woman vies for the title of Miss Indian World” by Anna Webb Idaho Statesman (Boise) Apr. 22, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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