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Jerusalem crickets

Jerusalem crickets is the plural of Jerusalem cricket.

Meaning of Jerusalem cricket

Noun

Jerusalem cricket (plural Jerusalem crickets)

  1. A large, flightless insect of the genus Stenopelmatus, native to the western United States and parts of Mexico — not a true cricket.
    Synonyms:
    potato bug

Interjection

  1. gosh; wow; expressing astonishment.

Questions about Jerusalem crickets

What does Jerusalem crickets mean?
Jerusalem crickets means gosh; wow; expressing astonishment.
What is Jerusalem crickets the plural of?
Jerusalem crickets is the plural of Jerusalem cricket.
What part of speech is Jerusalem crickets?
Jerusalem crickets is an interjection.

Words near Jerusalem crickets in the dictionary

  1. Jerusalem artichoke
  2. Jerusalem artichokes
  3. Jerusalem cherries
  4. Jerusalem cherry
  5. Jerusalem cricket
  6. Jerusalem crickets
  7. Jerusalem cross
  8. Jerusalem crosses
  9. Jerusalem Day
  10. Jerusalem haddock
  11. Jerusalem haddocks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Jerusalem crickets (page history and authors); Jerusalem cricket (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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