gopher
 go‧pher/ˈɡəʊfə $ ˈɡoʊfər/ noun [COUNTABLE]
Sense 1: [date : 1700-1800; Origin : Perhaps from Canadian French gaufre 'honeycomb']
1. a North and Central American animal like a large rat that lives in holes in the ground
2. (also Gopher) trademark a computer program that helps people find and use information quickly on the Internet
noun
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▪ Gophers, rather: moles would be gophers here.
▪ An adult owl will normally gobble about one gopher or two mice a night, experts say.
▪ For instance, many colleges, universities and government agencies store on-line information using a system called gopher.
▪ The ramparts are also popular among gophers and ground squirrels, whose Byzantine burrows are often a key culprit in levee breaks.
▪ There are dozens of gopher computers out there, full of valuable data and open to the public.
▪ With gophers, he searches for small mounds.
▪ You can find it, along with a great many other political documents, at a gopher called Internet Wiretap.
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