hamster

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any of various Old World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae.

   “The hamster stuffed his puffy cheeks with food.”

2. isim In particular, a rodent of the species Mesocricetus auratus (the golden hamster) or of a species of the genera Cricetiscus and Phodopus (the dwarf hamsters), often kept as a pet or used in scientific research.
3. isim Any of various other rodents of similar appearance, such as the maned hamster or crested hamster, Lophiomys imhausi, mouse-like hamsters of genus Calomyscus, and the white-tailed rat (Mystromys albicaudatus).
4. fiil To secrete or store privately, as a hamster does with food in its cheek pouches.

   “Probably the city government knew that without that hamstering half the city would starve and they somehow got the police to lay off. It was in the little stinky one-horse towns that you had all the trouble.”