What is "gophers"

Usage examples of "gophers".

And then they went back to the fields and were wild cats from then on, hunting gophers and field mice, and sleeping in ditches in the daytime.

Sometimes it was the Gophers that won, believe it or not, and the cops wouldn't come back for weeks, until things'd settled down.

Ben lis­tened too much to Grandpa Ledbetters stories about the Gophers and the gangs.

You'll find your folks piled in John's house like gophers in a winter burrow.

What she liked best about the neighborhood was that it had been the home of the Gophers, one of the toughest of the nineteenth-century gangs in New York.

The featured thugs were going to be the Gophers and their sister gang, the Battle Row Ladies' Social and Athletic Club (also known as the Lady Gophers).

Maybe some gang members from the Gophers or Hudson Dusters had paused under this very same post a hundred years ago, scoping out a job.

This was due partly to his heri­tage, but mostly to the fact that he almost never saw daylight: before becoming one of the founders of the Dusters, he’d been a member of the Gophers, another frightening, unpredictable group of violent Irishmen who ruled in Hell’s Kitchen and got their name from the fact that they spent their days in the cellars of that neigh­borhood, drinking, carousing, and doing whatever else passed for “living” in their book.

It was partly because so many Dusters were former Gophers that the newer gang was feared by the Police Department: along with the practice of raiding the train yards on the West Side, the Dusters’d maintained the Gophers’ taste for going after men in uniform.

The gang was called Gophers because their hideouts and stash drops were located in tenement basements.

Many were former Gophers who had started out with Angus at the turn of the century, back in the years when a gang war involved only fists, knives, clubs and street savvy.

The little gophers filled in the spaces between the larger bots and the "spiders" were stored end wise with all their legs folded.