grasshopper pie

English

Noun

grasshopper pie (countable and uncountable, plural grasshopper pies)

1. A kind of mint and chocolate pie, served chilled.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see grasshopper,‎ pie.
   • 1964, Robert Edgar Riegel, Robert G. Athearn, America Moves West, page 299:

     They lived chiefly on fish and roots, with now and then a delicacy such as grasshopper pie.