grasshopper
gras ho per
- 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.