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gopher hole

n. a hole in the ground made by gophers

Usage examples of "gopher hole".

Polly was looking sorrowfully at a rent in her pretty gauze gown, and Button-Bright's fox head had stuck fast in a gopher hole and he was wiggling his little fat legs frantically in an effort to get free.

Being a Master Old-singer's not falling down a gopher hole, you know.

Or at least he hoped it was a gopher hole, and not a place where something small, nasty, and underworldly had crawled up to see what was going on.

About the fourth jump my horse took, his hoof went into a gopher hole and he spilled us both.

The opening had been little more than a gopher hole when Joad had first sensed the strong, magical life-force far underground.

On occasion, when Malachai or Caleb discovered a gopher hole and Hannah Henry converted its inhabitant to soup, or when Ben Franklin successfully stalked squirrel or rabbit, such food was available.

But Davy Ray had stepped into a gopher hole hidden under dead leaves and fallen forward, and as he’.

Spending a couple of weeks hiding in a gopher hole in your back yard would be out of my line anywayeven for fifty bucks.

Spending a couple of weeks hiding in a gopher hole in your back yard would be out of my line anyway—.

Spending a couple of weeks hiding in a gopher hole in your back yard would be out of my line anyway--even for fifty bucks.

Until he'd at least made that start, everything could fall apart if his horse put a foot in a gopher hole!

And then he caught his foot in some sort of gopher hole and went toppling heavily to the ground, and felt the ankle twist beneath him as he landed.