lemming
le ming
- n any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution
- Given the lemming-like behavior of way too many journalists, it's hard to find praise for them.
- With that, the Secretary shuffled off on a two-mile lope along the Potomac, followed in lemming-like procession by 40 other fitness kooks.
- In years of plenty, when Arctic vegetation is growing vigorously, the lemming population builds up until the barren lands are alive with lemmings.