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Monkey Ward
nickname
Montgomery Ward, a department store chain US, 1912
A play on the sound.- He was an open apple knocker from the West Side wearing plain Monkey Ward jeans rather than Levi’s and high-top horsehide shit kickers. — Earl Thompson, Tattoo, p. 55, 1974
- — Bill Reilly, Big Al’s Official Guide to Chicagoese, p. 44, 1982
- Your little tyke can’t possibly network with the right people at pre-K if he’s wearing a poly-cotton blend from Monkey Ward. — Washington Post, p. C1, 4 October 1987
- The guy at the Foot Locker said I might find some at Monkey Ward’s. — Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado), p. 5A, 9 January 1996
- The execs at Monkey Ward (as it was fondly known in those days) liked the story and printed 2.4 million copies that year. — Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times Free Press, p. E6, 11 December 2003
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