Hamster

Quick meaning: Hamster is a noun meaning Any of various Old World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To secrete or store privately, as a hamster does with food in its cheek pouches.
2. 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).

Example Sentences

The hamster stuffed his puffy cheeks with food.

[…] eastern children frequently “hamstered,” smuggled, and begged across the boundary, especially after currency reform […]

[…] in his bedroom in neat stacks — he always hamstered them away upstairs as soon as the morning was done. This year the gifts sat ignored […]

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.

Word Forms

• hamsters
• hampster
• hamstering
• hamstered

Synonyms for hamster

Depending on context, synonyms include stash.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cricetid, cricetide, cardiocraniine, mouse, hystricomorph, heteromyd.

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