What is the meaning of GRASSHOPPER. Phrases containing GRASSHOPPER
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Phrs. Of a person, short in height.
Old type of locomotive with vertical boiler and cylinders
Copper (police). He got nabbed by the grasshoppers.
Copper (Police)
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Noun. A policeman. From the rhyming slang on 'copper'.
Very short.
Grasshopper is London Cockney rhyming slang for copper (policeman).
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The grasshopper warbler; -- so called from its note.
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An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect.
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Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididae, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, / Pachytylus, migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grasshoppers. See Grasshopper.
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A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets.
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A genus of small grasshoppers.
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The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts.
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See Grasshopper, 2.
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A cricket or grasshopper.
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Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.
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Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididae and Locustidae. The species and genera are very numerous. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in the region beyond the Mississippi. In the Eastern United States the red-legged (Caloptenus femurrubrum and C. atlanis) are closely related species, but their ravages are less important. They are closely related to the migratory locusts of the Old World. See Locust.
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Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
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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; -- called also the hopper.
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See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.
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