0 (behaving) in an uncontrolled way
Many reduplications are of this sort - dilly-dally, harum-scarum, humdrum, mumbo-jumbo, namby-pamby.
We should refuse to tolerate harum-scarum methods of buying, not related to national needs or the state of our own industry.
How many of us do not have regard for the wild, harum-scarum boy of 11 and like him better than the little swot?
But we still rushed harum-scarum around the countryside, leaving a trail of devastation and breaking our arms and legs ad lib.
We are not back alley, harum-scarum politicians.
The title is a homonym with an old nonsense expression (harum-scarum, meaning reckless or irresponsible) that has nothing to do with rabbits as such.
The painter has been described as a harum-scarum character, but also as a dashing painter, who was able to seize quickly and firmly upon a likeness.