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1. (n.) gopher
(cap.) a native or inhabitant of Minnesota (used as a nickname).
Etymology: (1925–30; resp. of gofer by assoc. with gopher1)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) goffer, gopher
a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)
2. (noun) Minnesotan, Gopher
a native or resident of Minnesota
3. (noun) ground squirrel, gopher, spermophile
any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
4. (noun) gopher, pocket gopher, pouched rat
burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
5. (noun) gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, gopher, Gopherus polypemus
burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) gopher
one of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan
2. (noun) gopher
one of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridae; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile
3. (noun) gopher
a large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows
4. (noun) gopher
a large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. gopher
[obs.] A type of Internet service first floated around 1991 and
obsolesced around 1995 by the World Wide Web. Gopher presents a menuing
interface to a tree or graph of links; the links can be to documents,
runnable programs, or other gopher menus arbitrarily far across the
net.Some claim that the gopher software, which was originally developed
at the University of Minnesota, was named after the Minnesota Gophers (a
sports team). Others claim the word derives from American slang gofer (from “go for”, dialectal
“go fer”), one whose job is to run and fetch things. Finally,
observe that gophers dig long tunnels, and the idea of tunneling through
the net to find information was a defining metaphor for the developers.
Probably all three things were true, but with the first two coming first
and the gopher-tunnel metaphor serendipitously adding flavor and impetus to
the project as it developed out of its concept stage.
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