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Word entry · 7 letters

hamster

Best crossword clue

"Pet rodent"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈhæm(p)stə/Part of speech nounSorted aehmrstStarts with HEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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 […]

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