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grasshopper
noun- a tourist AUSTRALIA, 1955
- Us locals live up here all year long and try to keep our beach safe from all you Briso and Grasshopper pricks[.] — Sandra Jobson, Blokes, p. 66, 1984
- a customer who inspects one line of goods after another without buying anything UK
- — Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Market Traders’ Slang, 1979
- a type of clutch on a motorcyle US
- We rebuilt the clutch and bought new discs and a chain for it, then took the clutch cover, the "grasshopper" (a spring-loaded assist for a manual clutch), the tool kit, the headlight, and a few more odds and ends to be chromed. — Peter Coyote, Sleeping Where I Fall, p. 109, 1998
- a police officer; a police informer UK, 1992
Rhyming slang for COPPERGRASS - marijuana UK
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 287, 2003
- in electric line work, an open-link cutout US
- — A. B. Chance Co., Lineman’s Slang Dictionary, p. 8, 1980
- a helicopter US
- No fucking around and packing. Just get your ass on the grasshoppers and go. — Ernest Spencer, Welcome to Vietnam, Macho Man, p. 210, 1987
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