Grasshopper

Quick meaning: Grasshopper is a noun meaning A cocktail made with crème de menthe and optionally with crème de cacao.

Meaning

A cocktail made with crème de menthe and optionally with crème de cacao.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) A young student in the initial stages of training who has been chosen on account of their obvious talent.
2. (transitive) Of a crop, to be ruined or destroyed by grasshoppers.
3. (transitive) To move a riverboat over an obstruction, such as a sandbar.
4. A mostly herbivorous insect of the order Orthoptera, noted for its ability to jump long distances and for the habit of some species communicating by stridulation; they are related to but distinct from crickets.
5. (music) In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key.
6. (chess) A fairy chess piece which moves orthogonally or diagonally, but must hop over a piece to move or capture, landing one square beyond the hopped piece.
7. (slang, drugs) A frequent user of marijuana.

Example Sentences

But it is as a destroyer of grasshoppers that the dickcissel excels.

Does he order Scotch-on-the-rocks in a low, mean voice? No? A Bud? No? A grasshopper, heavy on the creme de menthe? Right!

John Geib […]patented the hopper with two separate escapements, one of which soon became adopted in the grasshopper of the square piano

Although we don't know exactly why Li is chosen to dance, we witness a man assuring officials that the child isn't from bourgeois stock. Phew. There are no known landowners in the family, so the grasshopper passes some cultural purity test, in a state often fixated on class warfare, driven by the cult of personality, and bullied by paranoia.

Word Forms

• grasshoppers
• grasshoppering
• grasshoppered

Synonyms for grasshopper

Depending on context, synonyms include grasshop, hopper.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include acridid, katydid, cricket, locust, shrimp, walk.

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