When. employees who work in cubicles stand up and look around, to see what's happening -- typically in response to some kind of unexpected sound. Visually, this resembles how Prairie Dogs look, when they pop up from their underground tunnels to see what's happening above ground.
When something loud happens in an office with an "open floor plan" and everyone's heads pops up over their cubicle dividers to see what's going on, like a bunch of prairie dogs.
Did you guys see when John suddenly dropped that whole tray of coffees and everyone was prairie dogging like mad to see what was going on?
A phenomenon where, in a landscape of office cubicles, a number of people stand up to look around over the tops of the cube walls. Usually an unexpected/loud noise or verbal exchange will cause the curious to rise like prairie dogs out of their holes. The people will scan the cube horizon and soon sit back down.
The white noise system was going nuts and making crazy barking sounds--nobody could get much done because of all the prairie-dogging.
When a person (or creature) is so close to defecating themselves, fecal matter begins to protrude out of the anus. Similar to a Prairie Dog poking his head out of its burrow.