gerbil
Plural: gerbils
Noun
- A small, burrowing desert rodent with long hind legs.
- small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping
- A member of one of several species of small, jumping, mouselike rodents of the subfamily Gerbillinae, native to Africa, India, and Southern Europe.
Verb
- To rotate inside a monowheel or similar apparatus due to sudden acceleration or braking.
- To insert a small animal (typically a gerbil, supposedly) into one's rectum (a sexual practice in urban myth).
Examples
- He quickly scurried his tiles to form GERBIL, securing a nice hook for his next turn.
Origin / Etymology
From French gerbille, from Latin gerbo, from Arabic جَرْبُوع (jarbūʕ) or يَرْبُوع (yarbūʕ, “jerboa”). Doublet of jerboa.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 9
gerbil: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgerbil: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gerbil: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 12
gerbil: valid Words With Friends Word