Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word MONKEY
MONKEY
Definitions of MONKEY
- A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
- The ninth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
- The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.
- (figurative, generallypejorative) A human considered to resemble monkeys in some way, including:
- (historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
- (slang, nautical) The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.
- (slang) Synonym of five hundred, especially (British) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars.
- (blackjack) Synonym of face card.
- (slang) A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
- (slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
- (dance) A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
- (intransitive, informal) To meddle; to mess (with).
- (transitive) To mimic; to ape.
- (loosely, sometimesproscribed) Any simian primate other than hominids, any monkey or ape.
- (slang, vulgar, uncommon) A penis.
- (strictly) A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
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Examples of Using MONKEY in a Sentence
- Albert II (monkey), first primate and first mammal in space, died on impact following V-2 flight June 14, 1949.
- Aotus (the name is derived from the Ancient Greek words for "earless" in both cases: the monkey is missing external ears, and the pea is missing earlike bracteoles) may refer to:.
- Goeldi's marmoset, or Goeldi's monkey (Callimico goeldii), is a small New World monkey found on the South American continent, mainly in the upper Amazon basin of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Perú.
- Abyssinian black-and-white colobus, another name for the mantled guereza, a black-and-white colobus monkey.
- The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works of William Shakespeare.
- The peanut (Arachis hypogaea), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), goober pea, pindar (US) or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds.
- Maclura pomifera has many names, including mock orange, hedge apple, hedge, monkey ball, pap, monkey brains and yellow-wood.
- Night monkeys are the only truly nocturnal monkeys with the exception of some cathemeral populations of Azara's night monkey, who have irregular bursts of activity during day and night.
- There are monkey gums and ribbon gum along the creeks, and the park is home to chef's cap correa, an endangered species.
- Miss Able along with Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, became the first monkeys that the United States used in its space program to fly in space; they returned alive on May 28, 1959.
- At some point between 1850 and 1880, a local legend developed about the "Chalvey Stab Monkey" involving an organ grinder and a stabbed monkey; the first person to get blind drunk on the anniversary of the monkey's funeral is declared "Mayor of Chalvey".
- Maudslay began work at the age of 12 as a "powder monkey", one of the boys employed in filling cartridges at the Arsenal.
- This motivated him to purchase a monkey puppet from a rummage sale three years later and put on a puppet show utilizing the monkey and a plush snake.
- Initially, it was thought to prove that the brain was an immunologically privileged organ, as the host's immune system did not attack it at first, but immunorejection caused the monkey to die after nine days.
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