chipmunk
noun/ˈtʃɪpmʌŋk/
/ˈtʃɪpmʌŋk/
- a small North American animal of the squirrel family, with light and dark marks on its backTopics Animalsc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryChipmunk is used before these nouns:
- cheek
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from Ojibwa (an Algonquian language).Definitions on the go
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