<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.</li><li>Pocket gopher.</li><li>Gopher tortoise.</li><li>Gopher snake.</li><li>Gopher, a native or inhabitant of Minnesota (used as a nickname).</li><li>Gopher, Computers: a protocol for a menu-based system of accessing documents on the internet.</li><li>Any program that implements this protocol.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(Used without object) Mining: to mine unsystematically.</li><li>To enlarge a hole, as in loose soil, with successively larger blasts.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>