GOPHER

'Gopher' is:

★ Gopher (animal), including:

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★ True gopher, i.e. pocket gopher or member of Geomyidae, native to North America

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★ Richardson's Ground Squirrel, a species of ''Spermophilus''

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★ Ground squirrel, in a loose general sense, Sciuridae

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★ The Gopher tortoise, ''Gopher Tortoise/Gopherus polyphemus''

★ Media characters

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★ Gopher, a character in the Disney version of Winnie the Pooh.

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★ Character played in ''Wonderland'' by Michael Pitt

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★ The Gopher, character in Disney's The Lion King

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★ ''Gophers!'', a 1990 UK puppet sit-com starring the voice of Lou Hirsch

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★ Gordon the Gopher, a puppet gopher appearing on children's TV in the UK.

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★ The ship's purser on The Love Boat

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★ A character in the movie, Caddyshack

★ Member of various groups, including:

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★ Golden Gophers, University of Minnesota sports teams

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★ Gopher Gang, early 20th-century New York

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★ CF Pachuca, a Mexican soccer team whose Spanish nickname means "gophers"

★ An Italian rapper

★ Minnesota, the "Gopher State."

★ Gopher protocol, for the distributed hypertext protocol. Named in honor of, and developed at, the University of Minnesota.

★ Gopher wood, of unclear meaning, is mentioned in the Bible as the building material for Noah's ark.

★ A "gopher ball" is one of many nicknames for a home run in baseball.

★ A Gofer ("''go-fer'' " [go-for, to fetch]), or errand-runner