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monkey
noun- an addiction, especially to heroin or another drug US
- He’d taken the sweat cure in a little Milwaukee Avenue hotel room cutting himself down, as he put it, “from monkey to zero.” — Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm, p. 59, 1949
- [I]f one “has a monkey on his back,” meaning the urge is desperate and irresistible, he will be soaked from $50 to $100 a week. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 114, 1951
- “Old monkey climbing up on your back?” asked the man with the pipe, — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 86, 1953
- Aside from the monkey, I got room rent and meals and all that stuff to take care of. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 67, 1960
- A week in this joint, and another in that, until he burns more bridges behind him, until the monkey on his back grows into a full-sized gorilla? — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 214, 1961
- The only way anyone can help me is that they give me some money to get some shit and get that monkey off my back. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 195, 1965
- I wish you all the luck in the world, ‘cause, mama, that monkey could very well turn out to be an APE! — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 73, 1973
- I felt my monkey sandpapering my guts as I went to my pad. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 55, 1979
- Good luck, my brother, the monkey is a monster. — New Jack City, 1990
- Hitched a ride on a monkey’s back / Headed west into the black. — Dada, Dizz Knee Land, 1992
- five hundred pounds sterling; five hundred US dollars; five hundred Australian dollars UK, 1832
- My share was a monkey[.] — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 22, 1956
- In a month or two I done the monkey, in fact I was skint — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 112, 1958
- You’re due a monkey on the purse. Why don’t you double it? — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 41, 1984
- He still owes us a monkey from the last run. — Chris Baker and Andrew Day, Lock, Stock... & One Big Bullock, p. 333, 2000
- [S]igning a century (£100) or even a monkey (£500) away[.] — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 117, 2002
- fifty pounds sterling UK, 1950
A prison variation; the reduction in value from the outside world’s 500-unit is an economic reality. - I bet a Monkey you still don’t know what I’m talking about, do you? — Ronnie Barker, Fletcher’s Book of Rhyming Slang, p. 48, 1979
- 500 shares at £100 each, £50,000 (fifty thousand pounds worth of stock) UK, 1984
- in horse racing, a $100 bet US
- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 43, 1951
- a naughty rascal; generally said of someone younger UK, 1604
- Got to find the monkey first, then he’s out on his ear. — Nicholas Blincoe, The Beautiful Beaten-up Irish Boy of the Arndale Centre, p. 2, 1998
- in circus and carnival usage, a gullible customer who has been swindled US, 1922
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 175, 1981
- a carnival worker who climbs to assemble rides US, 1966
- — American Speech, p. 281, December 1966: More carnie talk from the West Coast
- a press photographer UK
Journalists’ slang, allegedly from the ungainly gait a press photographer adopts to manage all his equipment; a less disingenuous possibility derives the term from the organ grinder and his monkey. - — Word of Mouth, 6 August 2004
- a gambler who complains to the police about an illegal gambling operation after losing US
- — The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, p. 128, May 1950
- a band leader US, 1942
A reference to the tuxedo, or MONKEY SUIT- — Robert S. Gold, A Jazz Lexicon, p. 207, 1964
- a poor poker player US
- — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 58, 1988
- in motorcyle racing, the passenger in a sidecar who works in tandem with the driver US
- — Ed Radlauer, Motorcylopedia, p. 42, 1973
- your boyfriend’s or girlfriend’s “other” person US
- — Pamela Munro, U.C.L.A. Slang, p. 59, 1989
- a white person US
- Tie your girl to the back / Of my Jeep butt naked / Slide her monkey ass down the hill[.] — Pete Rock, For Pete’s Sake, 1992
- the vagina US, 1888
- — Charles Shafer, Folk Speech in Texas Prisons, p. 210, 1990
- — Judi Sanders, Da Bomb, p. 11, 1997
- the penis US, 1989
As in phrases SPANK THE MONKEYMARINATE THE MONKEY - a two-wheeled trailer designed to carry extra long loads UK
- — British Road Services Magazine, December 1951
- nonsense US
- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 327, 1997
- in card games, a face card US
- — Steve Kuriscak, Casino Talk, p. 38, 1985
▷ see:MONKEYONYOURBACK
▶ marinate the monkey
to perform oral sex US- Another way to say “fellatio” [...] Marinating the monkey[.] — Erica Orloff and JoAnn Baker, Dirty Little Secrets, p. 83, 2001
▶ monkey has a nosebleed
experiencing the bleed period of the menstrual cycle US
From MONKEYWhen I was young, menstruation was referred to by my male friends as “The monkey has a nose bleed.” — a correspondent, The Museum of Menstruation and Women’s Health, May 2001▶ put it where the monkey put the nuts!; shove them where the monkey shoved his nuts!; stick it where the monkey stuck his nuts!
used as an angry expression of dismissal or refusal UK, 1879
Anatomically: “in the anus”; figuratively: UP YOUR ASS/ARSE![I]n the kind of proud and angry way in which one might say, “Put it where the monkey put the nuts!” Cash was then too important to him. — J R Ackerley, My Father and Myself, p. 49, 1968 You can take Helford Hall and you can take your precious marriage and you can shove them where the monkey shoved his nuts. — Virginia Henley, The Pirate and the Pagan, p. 287, 1990 [T]ell ‘em it’s “Please Please Me” or else they can stick their deal where the monkey stuck his nuts. — Larry Kirwan, Liverpool Fantasy, p. xvii, 2003 |