Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Internet an Internet protocol for document search and retrieval.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From the gopher, mascot of the University of Minnesota, where the Gopher protocol was developed.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Gopher.

Examples

  • If we can handle Ronald Reagan, Ah-nold, Jessie Ventura, Sonny Bono, and Gopher from the Love Boat I'm sure we can handle a Baldwin brother. jayme

    Alec Baldwin interested in congressional run 2009

  • But he’d been a demolitions man back then, and whenever there was any kind of discussion as to whether it was feasible to blow up a bridge or a tunnel or a cache of Cong supplies, Gordon would say, “Let’s go for broke,” which is how he got the name Gopher.

    Eight Black Horses Ed McBain 1985

  • It also said that former U.S. Representative Fred Grandy also formerly known as "Gopher" on "The Love Boat" was presenting this matter to Congress.

    Rabbi Jason Miller: An Analysis Of The Delta-Saudi Controversy Rabbi Jason Miller 2011

  • But network administrators at the time preferred a streamlined text-only internet service, says Topolski, using something called the Gopher protocol.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • We live in a small town near Laramie called Gopher Hole.

    Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009

  • We live in a small town near Laramie called Gopher Hole.

    Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009

  • We live in a small town near Laramie called Gopher Hole.

    Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009

  • We live in a small town near Laramie called Gopher Hole.

    Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009

  • Had she really bound herself to live, inescapably, in this town called Gopher

    Main Street 2004

  • She was within ten minutes beholding not only the heart of a place called Gopher Prairie, but ten thousand towns from

    Main Street 2004

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.