Meanings
An orthopteran, chiefly a grasshopper or bush-cricket
colloquial · derogatoryan investor who buys enterprises or properties and deals with them in a way that harms the local population
East · Germany · colloquial · derogatory · historicalan investor from West Germany who did this in the former GDR, exploiting the chaos following German reunification
historicalThe Heuschrecke 10, a prototype WW2 era tracked weapons carrier.
Entomologiegrasshopper; locust
Heuschrecken findet man oft in Wiesen.
Examples
GermanEnglish
Das ist kein Grashüpfer, sondern eine Heuschrecke.That's not a grasshopper. It's a locust!
Das ist keine Heuschrecke, sondern ein Grashüpfer.That's not a locust, that's a grasshopper!