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Noun
/ˈgōfər/,
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gophers, plural;
  1. A burrowing rodent with fur-lined pouches on the outside of the cheeks, found in North and Central America

  2. A tortoise of dry sandy regions that excavates tunnels as shelter from the sun, native to the southern U.S

  3. A menu-based system that allows users of the Internet to search for and retrieve documents on topics of interest

  1. goffer: a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)
  2. Minnesotan: a native or resident of Minnesota
  3. ground squirrel: any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
  4. burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
  5. gopher tortoise: burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
  6. Gopher+ is a forward compatible enhancement to the RFC [ftp://ftp.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1436.txt 1436] Gopher protocol. Gopher+ works by sending extra data between the client and the server.
  7. The term gopher as it is commonly used does not relate to any one species, but is a generic term used to describe any of several small burrowing rodents endemic to North America, including the pocket gopher (family Geomyidae), also called true gophers, and the ground squirrel (family Sciuridae) ...
  8. The Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP Application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet. Strongly oriented towards a menu-document design, the Gopher protocol was a predecessor of (and later, an alternative to) the World Wide Web.
  9. The Gopher and Badger were trains operated by the Great Northern Railway between Saint Paul, Minnesota and the Twin Ports of Superior, Wisconsin and Duluth, Minnesota. The Great Northern introduced the services with two six-car streamlined trainsets on April 26, 1952. ...
  10. Gopher is a video game released in 1982 by US Games for the Atari 2600. The player controls a farmer with a shovel who must protect his three carrots from the gopher. The gopher tunnels left and right and up to the surface. When he makes a hole to the surface he will attempt to steal a carrot. ...
  11. Gopher is a fictional grey anthropomorphic gopher character who first appeared in the 1966 Disney animated film Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, introducing himself as Samuel J. Gopher. ...
  12. a small burrowing furry rodent; an unknown tree; Noah's Ark was built in gopher wood; a junior worker, usually in an office — someone who can be sent to go for things; in this sense it is usually spelled gofer
  13. A widely successful method of making menus of material available over the Internet. Gopher is a Client and Server style program, which requires that the user have a Gopher Client program. ...
  14. A system allowing users to search for files via menus or directory structures. Uses plain English names and is text based only.
  15. A browsing and searching protocol that lets you find and retrieve text and files.
  16. A menu-oriented tool used to locate online resources developed at the University of Minnesota.
  17. Though not as popular as FTP or http, the gopher protocol is implemented by many browsers and numerous other programs and allows the transfer of files across networks. ...
  18. A menu based search tool that is used to gather text information on a specific topic. Gophers are a text only tool.
  19. an application that locates, retrieves, and records information from the Internet. Like FTP, Gopher has become part of the World Wide Web.
  20. A distributed information service that makes available hierarchical collections of information across the Internet. ...
  21. An early Internet protocol and software program designed to search for, retrieve, and display documents from remote computers or sites. Gopher clients are used to connect to remote Gopher servers Interaction is typically carried out through a menu hierarchy.
  22. A menu-based system for browsing Internet information.
  23. A ball hit for a homerun.
  24. Software that searches and retrieves documents on remote computers for display on yours. Information is presented via menus.
  25. A play on the words "go for." A text menu-based browsing service on the Internet. The user selects an item on the menu and is led to either a file or another menu.