PRAIRIEDOG

Prairie dog

Prairie dogs are burrowing rodents native to the grasslands of North America. The five different species of prairie dogs are: black-tailed, white-tailed, Gunnison's, Utah, and Mexican prairie dogs. They are a type of ground squirrel, found in the United States, Canada and Mexico. In Mexico, prairie dogs are found primarily in the northern states, which lie at the southern end of the Great Plains: northeastern Sonora, north and northeastern Chihuahua, northern Coahuila, northern Nuevo León, and northern Tamaulipas. In the US, they range primarily to the west of the Mississippi River, though they have also been introduced in a few eastern locales. They are herbivorous.

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prairie dog

Noun

  1. A small, stout-bodied burrowing rodent with shallow cheek pouches, native to North America and Central America.

Verb

  1. To pop up from a hole or similar in a manner that resembles the way a prairie dog pops his head up from his burrow.
    Veronica in accounting is always prairie dogging from her desk whenever that new hunk from marketing walks by.
  2. To struggle to hold back an involuntary bowel movement.


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