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monkey
Theme: ADDICTION
n. a drug addiction.
That monkey of mine is getting hungry again.Why don't you try to get rid of that monkey?
Theme: CHILDREN
n. a playful child. (Also a term of address.)
Come here, you little monkey!Hey, monkey, where are you going?
monkey
Ⅰ
1. noun
1
an addiction, especially to heroin or another drug US, 1949.
2
five hundred pounds sterling; five hundred US dollars; five hundred Australian dollars UK, 1832.
3
fifty pounds sterling. A prison variation; the reduction in value from the outside world's 500-unit is an economic reality UK, 1950.
4
500 shares at £100 each, £50,000 (fifty thousand pounds worth of stock) UK, 1984.
5
a naughty rascal; generally said of someone younger UK, 1604.
6
in circus and carnival usage, a gullible customer who has been swindled US, 1922.
7
a carnival worker who climbs to assemble rides US, 1966.
8
a press photographer. 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 UK, 2004.
9
a gambler who complains to the police about an illegal gambling operation after losing US, 1950.
10
a band leader. A reference to the tuxedo, or MONKEY SUIT, worn by many band leaders US, 1942.
11
a poor poker player US, 1988.
12
in motorcyle racing, the passenger in a sidecar who works in tandem with the driver US, 1973.
13
your boyfriend's or girlfriend's 'other' person US, 1989.
14
a white person US, 1992.
15
the vagina US, 1888.
16
the penis. As in phrases SPANK THE MONKEY (to masturbate) and MARINATE THE MONKEY (to perform oral sex) US, 1989.
17
a two-wheeled trailer designed to carry extra long loads UK, 1951.
18
in horse racing, a $100 bet US, 1951.
19
nonsense US, 1997.
20
in card games, a face card US, 1985⇨ See: MONKEY ON YOUR BACK.► marinate the monkeyto perform oral sex US, 2001.► monkey has a nosebleedexperiencing the bleed period of the menstrual cycle. From MONKEY (the vagina) US, 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. Anatomically: 'in the anus'; figuratively: UP YOUR ASS/ARSE! UK, 1879
2. verb
to fiddle, to tamper, to fool around with US, 1876
Ⅱ ⇨ monkey on your back; monkey
noun
1
an addiction to drugs, especially heroin. A tenacious monkey is hard to shake off US, 1959.
2
in sports, the inability to beat a certain opponent. Used in many sports, but probably most commonly in tennis US, 1988
idiommonkey► funny/monkey businessI don't give a monkey's BrEBrE(also I don't give a monkey's shit, bum, fart etc)spoken a rude expression used in order to tell someone that you do not care at all about something:I don't give a monkey's what Stuart Baxter thinks; this is my business and I'll run it how I like.To be honest, I couldn't give a monkey's fart about your research.make a monkey out of sbspoken to make someone look stupid:My uncle's second wife, Heather is making a monkey out of him - she's twenty years younger than him and he's totally besotted.These civil rights protesters are making a monkey out of me - I want you to stop their march by whatever means necessary. a monkey on your backused about a serious problem that stops you from succeeding at something, especially a feeling that you cannot do it or the knowledge that other people do not expect you to succeed ◆ often used about sport:For Seles, the issue of her absence from Wimbledon the year before remained the monkey on her back.The press and the experts had put the monkey on Greg's back that he couldn't win a major tournament.
phrasemonkey[monkeyed, monkeyed, monkeying]
monkey around
monkey around/about informal to behave in a silly or annoying way: Tell the kids to stop monkeying around and go to sleep.■ SIMILAR TO: fool around, play around, mess around informal
monkey around with
monkey around/about with sth informal to touch or use something that is not yours or change something that does not need to be changed: I think all criminals know what to expect if they monkey about with other people's cars. Politicians are always threatening to monkey around with the tax system.■ SIMILAR TO: mess about/around with informal, muck about/around with BrE informal

monkey

1. n. a playful child. (Also a term of address.) Come here, you little monkey!
2. n. a drug addiction. (see also have a monkey on one’s back.) That monkey of mine is getting hungry again.
See:
  • (as) artful as a wagonload of monkeys
  • (as) clever as a wagonload of monkeys
  • (as) funny as a barrel of monkeys
  • (well) I'll be a monkey's uncle
  • a monkey on (one's) back
  • a monkey on your back
  • a/the monkey on somebody's back
  • as artful as a wagonload of monkeys
  • barrel of monkeys
  • be more fun than a barrel of monkeys
  • brass monkey
  • brass monkey weather
  • brass monkeys
  • cheeky monkey
  • cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
  • don't monkey around with me
  • every/a monkey knows what tree to climb
  • fool around
  • funny as a barrel of monkeys
  • get (one's) monkey up
  • grease monkey
  • have (one's) monkey up
  • have a monkey on (one's) back
  • have a monkey on one’s back
  • have a monkey on your back
  • have got a monkey on (one's) back
  • have your monkey up
  • I don't/couldn't give a monkey's
  • if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
  • I'll be a monkey's uncle
  • I'll be a monkey's uncle!
  • it's more fun than a barrel of monkeys
  • left-handed monkey wrench
  • like a monkey on a stick
  • like stink on a monkey/skunk/pig/etc.
  • make a fool of
  • make a monkey (out) of (someone or oneself)
  • make a monkey of someone
  • make a monkey out of
  • make a monkey out of somebody
  • make a monkey out of someone
  • mess around with someone
  • mess around with something mess about with something
  • mess with
  • mess with someone/something
  • monkey
  • monkey about with (someone or something)
  • monkey around
  • monkey around with
  • monkey around with someone
  • monkey around with something
  • monkey bite
  • monkey business
  • monkey in the middle
  • monkey off (one's) back
  • monkey on (one's) back
  • monkey on one's back
  • Monkey see, monkey do
  • monkey suit
  • monkey swill
  • monkey talk
  • monkey wagon
  • monkey wards
  • monkey with (something)
  • monkey with someone/something
  • monkey wrench
  • monkey wrench in the works, put/throw a
  • monkey's allowance
  • monkeys might fly out of my butt
  • monkey's uncle
  • monkey's uncle, I'll be/am a
  • monkey's wedding
  • more fun than a barrel of monkeys
  • not give a monkey's
  • organ grinder's monkey
  • powder monkey
  • put (one's) monkey up
  • put a (monkey) wrench in(to) the works
  • put a person's monkey up
  • softly, softly, catchee monkey
  • the organ grinder's monkey
  • throw a (monkey) wrench in(to) the works
  • throw a monkey wrench in the works
  • throw a monkey wrench in(to) (something)
  • throw a monkey wrench into
  • throw a wrench into the works
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