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• n  terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
• n  a cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao)

• The nation's annual plague of grasshoppers was beginning early last week in Mississippi, where the hoppers were crunching through corn and cotton fields, eating everything in .
• The grasshopper plague that was swirling over Colorado last week brought misfortune to farmers, mischief to tourists, and misery to Denver's Rocky Mountain News, a Scripps-Howard .
• To a zoologist, the leap of the grasshopper is one of the wonders of the world.

• hopper

News & Articles

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• SD landowners urged to check for grasshoppers
  The South Dakota Agriculture Department is urging farmers and ranchers to check their land for grasshopper infestations.
  June 23, 2013 - KOTA Rapid City
• BNL’s Tackett headed for Greenville College
  BEDFORD — Bethany Tackett has been getting her kicks on the soccer field since she was knee high to a grasshopper. The 2013 Bedford North Lawrence graduate, who took up the g ...
  June 21, 2013 - Bedford Times-Mail
• Suda 51 and Grasshopper are using Unreal Engine 4 'heavily'
  No More Heroes and Killer is Dead dev Grasshopper Manufacture is "heavily relying" on Unreal Engine 4, with next-gen games in mind. Speaking to Joystiq at E3, Grasshopper CEO Goichi Suda, most commonly known as Suda 51, confirmed his studio's use of Epic's next-gen engine when asked about his thoughts on the PS4 and Xbox One. "As a developer, we're heavily relying right now on Unreal Engine 4 ...
  June 19, 2013 - Joystiq

Quotes

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• Dick Motta in Los Angeles Times
  He was so thin that during his rookie season then-Dallas coach Dick Motta told the Washington Post that Bol would "break like a grasshopper : an arm here, a leg over there" once he ran into a typical NBA opponent.
• Sven-Goran Eriksson in Sportinglife.com
  He's always been a hard worker,Eriksson added. "I know people who worked with him at Grasshopper FC in Zurich a few years ago, they said he was a goalscorer and a hard worker even then and it's good if you can have that combination in a...
• Carl Nafzger in TurfTrax (subscription)
  Trainer Carl Nafzger told www.bloodhorse.com: "Street Sense couldn't goof around like he sometimes does. He nearly always will finish when he's hooked up eyeball to eyeball, but when he gets up about a length in front he pricks his ears. Grasshopper...