Definitions for gopher

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gopher go·pher

Spelling: [goh-fer]

IPA: /ˈgoʊ fər/

Gopher is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in gopher (eghopr).

Definitions for gopher

noun

1. any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
2. pocket gopher.
3. gopher tortoise.
4. gopher snake.
5. (initial capital letter) a native or inhabitant of Minnesota (used as a nickname).
6. (initial capital letter) Computers. a protocol for a menu-based system of accessing documents on the Internet. any program that implements this protocol.
7. gofer.
8. an employee whose chief duty is running errands.

verb (used without object)

1. Mining. to mine unsystematically. to enlarge a hole, as in loose soil, with successively larger blasts.

Origin of gopher

1785-95; earlier megopher, magopher gopher tortoise; of obscure origin; spelling copies gopher wood

Examples for gopher

Though she was bent almost double, she was as spry as a gopher.

Why, you could have knocked me down with the kick of a gopher I was so dumfounded!

gopher had made provision for feeding the addition to our passengers.

The critters resemble the gopher from Caddyshack… if it had rabies.

He is a gopher, and different from the common kind of turtle.

The dinner was served in the cabin, and gopher had done his best, as usual.

"It's my idea that the gopher isn't in here at all," announced Curley, with emphasis.

Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

gopher had dined all on board but the crew, who had turned in before I did.

Smith watched the antics of a gopher for a full minute before he replied.