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gophers

gophers is the plural of gopher.

Meaning of gopher

Noun

gopher (plural gophers)

  1. A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).
  2. A ground squirrel (Marmotinae spp.).
  3. A gopher tortoise (Gopherus spp.).
  4. A gopher rockfish (Sebastes carnatus).
  5. (slang) A Go programmer.
    • I'm not at all advocating for any Gophers to switch to Haskell—there are far too many reasons to keep coding and deploying Go solutions to address here.2017, Lex Sheehan, Learning Functional Programming in Go, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 373

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Noun capitalized: Gophers

Gophers

  1. (plural) plural of Gopher

Phrases with gophers

Questions about gophers

What is gophers the plural of?
Gophers is the plural of gopher.
What part of speech is gophers?
Gophers is a noun.

Words near gophers in the dictionary

  1. Gopher Stater
  2. gopher tortoise
  3. gopher tortoises
  4. gopher wood
  5. gopherlike
  6. gophers
  7. gopherspace
  8. gopherwood
  9. gopi
  10. gopik
  11. gopiks

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