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Meanings of sandhopper in English

Small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches.

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        Examples for "beach flea"
        Examples for "beach flea"
        1
        Maybe she could glue shells to the tiles and sell them at the beach flea market.
        Happiness key
        2
        Kings Beach Flea Market, Port Elizabeth Friendly City, friendly market.
        The South African
        1
        'What coaxed Aemilia Fausta away from the sand hoppers?'
        Shadows in Bronze
        1
        That's like a sand flea or something, right .
        The incumbent
        2
        What a family of sand fleas I come from!
        Number9Dream
        3
        I was wondering about desert fauna and the relative frequency of sand fleas only yesterday.
        Imprudence
        4
        Sand fleas started a seven-course meal on my legs, but I didn't want to move.
        Rebel island
        5
        There were more than a dozen of them and they jumped and kicked like sand fleas.
        The old man and the sea
        Usage of sandhopper in English
        1
        It was really cool the way it actually turns stones over, looking for sandhoppers and -what are they called?
        The Irish Times