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prairie dog

Today it means: Any member of the genus Cynomys, small, stout-bodied burrowing rodents with shallow cheek pouches, native to North America and Central America. Full definition →

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prairie dog · noun¹

From prairie + dog, after their yelping alarm calls.

prairie dog · verb²

By analogy with the animal's unburrowing behavior.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.