monkeys
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Definitions ofmonkeys
- Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches.
Example: "He had been visiting an area zoo when a monkey swung from its tree perch, swiped his glasses and hurled them into a hippo hole."
- Any nonhuman simian primate, including apes.
Example: "Chimpanzees are known to form bands to hunt and kill other monkeys."
- A mischievous child.
Example: "She's a cheeky monkey."
- A dance move popular in the 1960s.
- Five hundred pounds sterling; five hundred dollars.
- A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.
- A person with minimal intelligence and/or an unattractive appearance
- A face card.
- A menial employee who does a repetitive job, as in code monkey, grease monkey, phone monkey, powder monkey.
- The weight or hammer of a pile driver; a heavy mass of iron, which, being raised high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.
- A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
- A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
- A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
- A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
- A black person.
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