Definitions
A small cheek-pouched rodent often kept as a pet.
Word origin
Borrowed from German Hamster (see for etymology). Displaced earlier term German rat.
Used in a sentence
“The hamster stuffed his puffy cheeks with food.”
“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.”
“[…] 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 […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Pet rodent”7 letters
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