Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A protocol for the storage and retrieval of text on a computer network using a TCP/IP protocol.
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- n. an Internet protocol for document search and retrieval.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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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
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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.
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But network administrators at the time preferred a streamlined text-only internet service, says Topolski, using something called the Gopher protocol.
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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.
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We live in a small town near Laramie called Gopher Hole.
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Had she really bound herself to live, inescapably, in this town called Gopher
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She was within ten minutes beholding not only the heart of a place called Gopher Prairie, but ten thousand towns from
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To think that there was once a Mrs. Kennicott who let herself worry over a town called Gopher Prairie when there was a whole world outside it!
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And it was a novel about a village called Gopher Prairie in the state of Minnesota.
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We hear of an implement, in use in Illinois and other Western States, called the Gopher Plow, worked by a capstan, which drains wet land by merely drawing through it an iron shoe, at about two and a half feet in depth, without the use of any foreign substance.
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