All gopher synonyms

noun gopher

• martyr — a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
• fatality — a disaster resulting in death.
• casualty — A casualty is a person who is injured or killed in a war or in an accident.
• sufferer — to undergo or feel pain or distress: The patient is still suffering.
• gofer — an employee whose chief duty is running errands.
• go-between — a person who acts as an agent or intermediary between persons or groups; emissary.
• bearer — The bearer of something such as a message is the person who brings it to you.
• runner — a person, animal, or thing that runs, especially as a racer.
• herald — (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
• carrier — A carrier is a vehicle that is used for carrying people, especially soldiers, or things.
• internuncio — a papal ambassador ranking next below a nuncio.
• dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
• slave — a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
• servant — a person employed by another, especially to perform domestic duties.
• serf — a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
• peasant — a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
• drudge — a person who does menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
• laborer — a person engaged in work that requires bodily strength rather than skill or training: a laborer in the field.
• farmhand — a person who works on a farm, especially a hired worker; hired hand.
• gudgeon — Machinery. a trunnion.
• underdog — a person who is expected to lose in a contest or conflict.
• stooge — an entertainer who feeds lines to the main comedian and usually serves as the butt of his or her jokes.
• pawn — to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, especially with a pawnbroker: He raised the money by pawning his watch.
• gull — a person who is easily deceived or cheated; dupe.
• immolation — an act or instance of immolating.
• dupe — duplicate.
• patsy — a person who is easily swindled, deceived, coerced, persuaded, etc.; sucker.
• mark — Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") 1837–1904, U.S. merchant and politician: senator 1897–1904.
• wretch — a deplorably unfortunate or unhappy person.
• prey — an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
• innocent — free from moral wrong; without sin; pure: innocent children.
• pushover — Informal. anything done easily.
• sacrifice — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
• fool — to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.
• scapegoat — a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
• quarry — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
• sucker — a person or thing that sucks.
• hireling — a person who works only for pay, especially in a menial or boring job, with little or no concern for the value of the work.
• butt — Someone's butt is their bottom.
• clown — A clown is a performer in a circus who wears funny clothes and bright make-up, and does silly things in order to make people laugh.
• gambit — Chess. an opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece.
• pigeon — (not in technical use) pidgin; pidgin English.
• intelligencer — a person or thing that conveys information.
• easy mark — sb easily targeted or victimized
• hunted — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
• sitting duck — a helpless or easy target or victim: a sitting duck for shady financial schemes.
• soft touch — a person who is easily convinced, especially to give or lend money: a soft touch for charities.
• sitting target — A sitting target is the same as a sitting duck.
• messenger — a person who carries a message or goes on an errand for another, especially as a matter of duty or business.