chipmunk
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- noun
- /ˈtʃɪpmʌŋk/
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- Yeah, the chipmunks ate my tomatoes.
- yellow-pine chipmunk
I mean, they're psychopathic killers who end up killing innocent neighborhood chipmunks and and birds.
- I mean, they're psychopathic killers who end up killing innocent neighborhood chipmunks and and birds.
- Are they, they're like, not squirrels, but they're not chipmunks.
- Also, we go around with our neural networks just like dogs and cats and chipmunks and Blue Jays, and we experience things in the world.
- Like my dad sees a chipmunk run across like the and he's like, look, look, I'm like what?
- And that even the trees that fall and the like, the, the kind of dead decay, that's where chipmunks and mice and all these other animals have their habitats.
- So if you have animals in captivity like dogs or chipmunks or rodents, hamster, hamsters, mice, how do you feed them a calorie restricted diet?
- Like, so you know, chipmunk was a weird one.
Examples
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You are the curious and clever chipmunk.
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Chipmunks are coming for you.
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Because it is home to a chipmunk, it shares in that animal's life.
Academic text (1996) -
Appears to me you trapped a chipmunk.
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And I took my kids to the movie theater to see the Chipmunks movie recently.
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But every now and then she would go out and get little birds and chipmunks and things.
Fiction book (1999) -
Last month, there were two hapless chipmunks sleeping in the engine block.
Fiction book (2002) -
They're fat little chipmunks too, little porkers.
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All right, you chipmunks.
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In the park, we spotted a small chipmunk searching for food among the leaves.
Synonyms
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A small striped squirrel in eastern North America that fills its cheeks with food for later
A small animal like a squirrel with dark and light stripes and cheek pouches for storing food
A small striped squirrel that lives in Siberia and stores food for winter
A small squirrel with stripes on its back that lives in burrows in Siberia
A small striped ground squirrel that lives in dry rocky places in the western United States
A group of chipmunks that live in western America and Asia
A group of chipmunk species that live in western North America and Asia
A group of chipmunks that live in eastern North America
A group of chipmunk species that live in eastern North America
Compounds
A small animal like a squirrel with dark and light stripes and cheek pouches for storing food
A small striped ground squirrel that lives in dry rocky places in the western United States
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chipmunk comes from a Native American word in the Ojibwe language that sounded like ajidamoo, which people used for this small striped animal. So English took that name for the little squirrel-like rodent we now call a chipmunk, known for stuffing food into its cheek pouches.