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- noun Plural form of
grasshopper .
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Examples
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Shades of Scott Westerfeld's brilliant vampirism-as-parasitic-infection novel Peeps -- New Scientist reports that a worm that thrives in grasshoppers and crickets somehow convinces its hosts into drowning themselves, leaving the worms in a better breeding position:
Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives 2005
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What we call grasshoppers that is; and what are, really, locusts.
The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953
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I'll be spry as a kitten catchin 'grasshoppers in a week.
Comrades 1911
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“The grasshoppers were the best,” Julia continued.
Getting Air Dan Gutman 2007
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“The grasshoppers were the best,” Julia continued.
Getting Air Dan Gutman 2007
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“The grasshoppers were the best,” Julia continued.
Getting Air Dan Gutman 2007
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There was not a breath of wind; the sunlight shone down on the bare hillside; the loud chirp of the grasshoppers was the only sound.
The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen 1905
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The grasshoppers are a concern for ranchers as well as farmer.
KUSA-TV - 2010
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Israeli leaders have described them [Palestinians] as "two-legged beasts," "grasshoppers," "drugged roaches running around in a bottle," etc.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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The racist language includes: "two-legged beasts," "grasshoppers," "drugged roaches running around in a bottle," from such sources as Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Foreign Minister/Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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