red-legged grasshopper
noun
A small North American grasshopper with reddish hind tibiae, Melanoplus femurrubrum, which is often an agricultural pest.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in The Cultivator: a monthly journal for farm and the garden.
- pitch mark
- pitch meter
- pitch-notation
- pitch note
- pitch of the ball
- pitch-oil
- pitch opal
- pitchout
- pitch-penny
- pitch-perfect
- pitch phoneme
- pitch pine
- pitch pipe
- pitch-plaster
- pitch point
- pitchpole
- pitch polisher
- pitch pot
- pitch shifter
- pitch shot
- pitchside
- pitch someone/thing against
- pitch something up (or pitch up)
- lead the way
- lead time