- any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
- pocket gopher.
- gopher tortoise.
- gopher snake.
- a native or inhabitant of Minnesota (used as a nickname).
- Gopher, Computers.
- a protocol for a menu-based system of accessing documents on the internet.
- any program that implements this protocol.
- Mining.
- to mine unsystematically.
- to enlarge a hole, as in loose soil, with successively larger blasts.
- any burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae, of North and Central America, having a thickset body, short legs, and cheek pouches
- another name for ground squirrel
- any burrowing tortoise of the genus Gopherus, of SE North America
- gopher snake another name for bull snake
