Gopher
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Gopher is:
- Gopher (animal), including:
- True gopher, i.e. pocket gopher or member of Geomyidae, native to North America
- Richardson's Ground Squirrel, a species of Spermophilus
- Ground squirrel, in a loose general sense, Sciuridae
- The Gopher Tortoise, Gopher Tortoise/Gopherus polyphemus
- Media characters
- Gopher (Winnie the Pooh)- a character in the Disney version of Winnie the Pooh.
- Character played in Wonderland by Michael Pitt
- The Gopher, character in Disney's The Lion King
- Gophers!, a 1990 UK puppet sit-com starring the voice of Lou Hirsch
- Gordon the Gopher, a puppet gopher appearing on children's TV in the UK.
- The ship's purser on The Love Boat
- Member of various groups, including:
- Golden Gophers, University of Minnesota sports teams
- Gopher Gang, early 20th-century New York
- CF Pachuca, soccer team whose Spanish nickname means "gophers"
- Military hardware:
- SA-13 Gopher missile
- SS Gopher State (T-ACS-4), ship
- 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
