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  • noun Plural form of gopher.

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Examples

  • I believe in the right to own guns and think that shooting gophers is an honorable pasttime.

    Guns for Burns David 2006

  • I think Bill Murray should be a defendant in this lawsuit since his failure to destroy the gophers is undoubtedly the ultimate cause of this plaintiff’s problem.

    Friday Follies 2.11 « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010

  • I think Bill Murray should be a defendant [6] in this lawsuit since his failure to destroy the gophers is undoubtedly the ultimate cause of this plaintiff’s problem.

    A Progressive on the Prairie » Friday Follies 2.11 » Print 2010

  • They belonged to one of the little underground creatures, called gophers, that we have all about us.

    Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton

  • But chipmunks, woodchucks and 13-lined ground squirrels (sometimes called gophers) are also members of the squirrel family, even though they don't usually climb trees, and all live in Michigan.

    Freep.com - RSS 2009

  • But chipmunks, woodchucks and 13-lined ground squirrels (sometimes called gophers) are also members of the squirrel family, even though they don't usually climb trees, and all live in Michigan.

    Freep.com - RSS 2009

  • Research shows that while rock is weathered by precipitation and chemical breakdown to create soil, the soil itself is moved downslope in many landscapes primarily by the activity of small animals, such as gophers and squirrels, Perron said.

    valleys and ridges | clusterflock 2009

  • Burrowing rodents, such as gophers, will often eat the roots.

    3 Production 1985

  • The children served as 'gophers', go for this and go for that.

    Earth Fire Ahern, Jerry 1984

  • Before the arrival of farmers in the Wisconsin woods the small ground squirrels, called "gophers," lived chiefly on the seeds of wild grasses and weeds, but after the country was cleared and ploughed no feasting animal fell to more heartily on the farmer's wheat and corn.

    The Story of My Boyhood and Youth John Muir 1876

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