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noun
A member of one of several species of small, jumping, mouselike rodents of the subfamily Gerbillinae, native to Africa, India, and Southern Europe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To rotate inside a monowheel or similar apparatus due to sudden acceleration or braking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To insert a small animal (typically a gerbil, supposedly) into one's rectum (a sexual practice in urban myth).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, slang
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noun
small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: gerbille
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rodent, gnawer
Narrower terms: jird, tamarisk gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus, sand rat, Meriones longifrons
History
From French gerbille, from Latin gerbo, from Arabic جَرْبُوع (jarbūʕ) or يَرْبُوع (yarbūʕ, “jerboa”). Doublet of jerboa.
Across languages
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