1. a term reflecting the frequent tendency of government officials to suddenly disappear from public view when the spotlight of criticism shines on them, typically for a period of 1-2 days or until someone else's boneheaded antics capture the headlines
2. An instinctive and defensive reaction of an elected official to avoid a "whack-a-mole" reaction by their constituents
2. An instinctive and defensive reaction of an elected official to avoid a "whack-a-mole" reaction by their constituents
"Hey, have you seen Gov Stanford since his "hiking trip" hit the wires?"
"No, he seems to have ducked outa sight."
"Just like a gopherment official. Gone underground until someone else steals the limelight."
"No, he seems to have ducked outa sight."
"Just like a gopherment official. Gone underground until someone else steals the limelight."
by just_warming_up September 02, 2009
Noun. Someone in a low-rank position. Usually used for low rank tasks. So called because of its sound-a-like to "go-for", as in to go for something, such as to go for coffee.
They basically are the peasants of the corporate ladder and do whatever the fuck their bosses say.
They basically are the peasants of the corporate ladder and do whatever the fuck their bosses say.
by PeachyKi October 29, 2011
When desperately needing to go for a poo, the moment when it pokes it's head out of your bumhole and quickly goes back inside like a startled Gopher!
Heaven help me - I am Gophering badly and I need to lay a cable proto as the brown light is flashing!
by Mr Carstairs December 11, 2013
A user of the programming language Go, created by Google. The brain behind the language basically describes Gophers as retarded children and I quote "They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt."
by CrazyDev November 15, 2021
Putting your fingers in a girl's vagina and then popping your fingers out of her butt, sniffing around like a gopher.
by sex master j balls June 18, 2011
A system that pre-dates the World Wide Web for organizing and displaying files on Internet servers. A Gopher server presents its contents as a hierarchically structured list of files. With the ascendance of the Web, many gopher databases were converted to Web sites which can be more easily accessed via Web search engines.
Gopher was developed at the University of Minnesota and named after the school's mascot. Two systems, Veronica and Jughead, let you search global indices of resources stored in Gopher systems.
Gopher was developed at the University of Minnesota and named after the school's mascot. Two systems, Veronica and Jughead, let you search global indices of resources stored in Gopher systems.
by David Bleach January 15, 2004
1) n. Small cute ground-dwelling rodent often used as a target by young folk possessed of small-bore rifles and a sense of entitlement.
2) n. Any person who is the target of the wrath, animosity etc. of a superior, teacher etc.
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2) n. Any person who is the target of the wrath, animosity etc. of a superior, teacher etc.
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I am not going into the sales meeting unless an intern shows up. I do not want to be the gopher.
Word that.
Word that.
by gnostic 1 May 06, 2013