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).