locust

Definition

  • noun: a type of grasshopper that travels in very large groups and that can cause great destruction by eating crops
  • noun: a migratory grasshopper often traveling in vast swarms and stripping the areas passed of all vegetation
  • synonyms: short-horned grasshopper

Examples

  • a swarm of 'locusts'

Movie quotes

  • (..) Oh, remembered. The man who had escaped... We learned about this later. He was a doctor. Damn! That's right. Duville. Look where you're going locust. Asshole! They talked about you on television recently. Really? About you, about those two dead bodies, (..)
    1981 To Kill a Cop