any of several species of American burrowing rodents that is are the size of a large rat and have large cheek pouches: family Geomyidae
any of various small ground squirrels of the N American prairies, closely related to the chipmunks: genus Spermophilus and other genera
any of several species of American burrowing tortoises: genus Gopherus
in computing, an early form of Internet search engine
[perhaps from Canadian French gaufre honeycomb (see goffer1), from the network of burrows the rodents make; (sense 5) prob an alteration of gofer]