lubber grasshopper

noun

: either of two very large stout clumsy short-winged North American grasshoppers:

a

: a grasshopper (Romalea microptera) of the southeastern U.S.

b

: a grasshopper (Brachystola magna) of the southwestern U.S. and adjacent Mexico

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