Gopher

An Internet protocol for document search and retrieval.

Proper noun

  1. An Internet protocol for document search and retrieval.

Origin

From the gopher, mascot of the University of Minnesota, where the Gopher protocol was developed.

Derived

gopherspace gopherhole phlog

Noun

  1. Alternative letter-case form of gopher.
    • I'm not at all advocating for any Gophers to switch to Haskell—there are far too many reasons to keep coding and deploying Go solutions to address here. - 2017, Lex Sheehan, Learning Functional Programming in Go, Packt...

Forms

Gophers