A gopher can be defined several ways. Someone who is way too energetic on the job and we send them to do anything we don't want to do is a gopher. But the animal gopher is a burrowing ground squirrel.
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Answer A gopher is a rodent which digs tunnels in the soil, in search of food and for shelter. A go-fer is a person who has no assigned duties, but is to be used to fetch items for another person.
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gopher - Definition [goh-fer]
(n.) Burrowing rodent
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From about 1992 through 1996, Gopher was an Internet application in which hierarchically-organized text files could be brought from servers all over the world ...
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