grasshopper
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- noun
- /ˈɡræsˌhɑpər/
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cóctel grasshopper
- Anyway, I really wanted to try a grasshopper or a scorpion or something, but after seeing the move on the stick, I got grossed out.
Examples
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- May I have a grasshopper, please?
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Stu, mix us up two grasshoppers.
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To ensure that they know a grasshopper from a Manhattan?
Academic text (2016) -
So a grasshopper walks into a bar... ...and the bartender's like, "We have a drink named after you."
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Photoshoot is back on, grasshoppers.
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We caught grasshoppers and spiders, tried them for being ugly, and executed them.
Fiction book (2001) -
Tom's standup routine is heavy on grasshopper jokes.
Blog text (23) -
In high school, she and Laura had made themselves violently ill on Grasshoppers one summer night when Laura's parents were away.
Fiction book (1999) -
Takes out his gold-nibbed, platinum-cased Cross fountain pen, the pen his publishers gave him to mark the publication of the ten millionth copy of the groundbreaking, genre-busting The Grasshopper Lies Heavy.
Fiction book (2001) -
Could you please make me a grasshopper cocktail with extra mint?
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A grasshopper with very long feelers that makes sounds with its wings
- Specialized
An insect that moves in large swarms and eats crops like wheat and pasture plants
A small mouse from western North America that hunts insects and scorpions and makes loud howls
- Specialized
A grasshopper with antennae shorter than its body that often eats plants and can damage crops
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Grasshopper for the cocktail is named after the green insect because the drink is made with sweet mint, which gives it a bright 'green' color. That's why a grasshopper is a sweet, minty dessert drink.