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gopher
1[ goh-fer ]
noun
- any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
- Gopher, a native or inhabitant of Minnesota (used as a nickname).
- Gopher, Computers.
- a protocol for a menu-based system of accessing documents on the internet.
- any program that implements this protocol.
verb (used without object)
- Mining.
- to mine unsystematically.
- to enlarge a hole, as in loose soil, with successively larger blasts.
gopher
2[ goh-fer ]
noun
gopher
/ ˈɡəʊfə /
noun
- Also calledpocket gopher any burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae, of North and Central America, having a thickset body, short legs, and cheek pouches
- See ground squirrelanother name for ground squirrel
- any burrowing tortoise of the genus Gopherus, of SE North America
- See bull snakegopher snakegopher snake another name for bull snake
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Example Sentences
The critters resemble the gopher from Caddyshack… if it had rabies.
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Ivanpah, which is 3,500 acres, ran into trouble a while ago when endangered desert gopher tortoises were found on the site.
Not to mention Al Franken, Sonny Bono, Jesse Ventura, and Fred Grandy, who played Gopher on The Love Boat.
I wudden't be surprised to know that a bear had a tillyphone in his room, an' that th' gopher complained iv his gas bills.
"It's my idea that the gopher isn't in here at all," announced Curley, with emphasis.
Why, you could have knocked me down with the kick of a gopher I was so dumfounded!
In the east there is White Gopher, who gnaws with his strong teeth.
"The gopher'll do it, too; he's a clumsy lout," he answered, referring to Stacy in a withering tone.
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