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pocket gopher

[′päk·ət ‚gō·fər]
(vertebrate zoology)
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Some are simple "gopher holes," only a few feet long near a fence.
I have left out such time wasters as inserting chewing gum in gopher holes, using mothballs (What is it about mothballs?
In other words, Gopher lets you burrow through piles of information at the thousands of Gopher sites - Gopher holes - around the world making up what is called Gopherspace.
The menu of American fare features everything from appetizers like Crispy Potato Golf Balls, to desserts like Gopher Holes. There's seating for about 240, including in the "Looper's Lounge" that serves as a private dining area.
The 1980 comedy ends with a frustrated golf course groundskeeper - famously played by Bill Murray - blowing up gopher holes in a series of explosions timed to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
It was a fairly nondescript piece of ground: Some knee-high grass, a few withered blackberry vines and a couple of gopher holes. But the meaning was in the knowing what nobody, we presume, had known until then.
Dodging gopher holes in a pasture-turned-football field, members of the Triangle Lake High School football team run plays during practice in the rural foothills of west Lane County.