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mon·key  (mngk)

n. pl. mon·keys

1. Any of various long-tailed, medium-sized members of the order Primates, including the macaques, baboons, guenons, capuchins, marmosets, and tamarins and excluding the anthropoid apes and the prosimians.

2. One that behaves in a way suggestive of a monkey, as a mischievous child or a mimic.

3. The iron block of a pile driver.

4. Slang A person who is mocked, duped, or made to appear a fool: They made a monkey out of him.

5. Slang Drug addiction: have a monkey on one's back.

v. mon·keyed, mon·key·ing, mon·keys

v.intr. Informal

1. To play, fiddle, trifle, or tamper with something.

2. To behave in a mischievous or apish manner: Stop monkeying around!

v.tr.

To imitate or mimic; ape.

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monkey

Noun

1. any long-tailed primate that is not a lemur or tarsier

2. (loosely) any primate that is not a human

3. a naughty or mischievous child

4. Slang £500 or $500

5. give a monkey's Brit slang to care about or regard as important: who gives a monkey's what he thinks?

Verb

monkey around or about with to meddle or tinker with [origin unknown]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	monkey - any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) primate - any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet catarrhine, Old World monkey - of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together New World monkey, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian - hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails
	2.	monkey - one who is playfully mischievous scamp, imp, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag child, kid, minor, nipper, tiddler, youngster, tike, shaver, small fry, nestling, fry, tyke - a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" brat, holy terror, little terror, terror - a very troublesome child
Verb	1.	monkey - play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly; "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk"; "The reporter fiddle with the facts" tamper, fiddle manipulate - hold something in one's hands and move it
	2.	monkey - do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house" mess around, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, tinker, putter puddle - mess around, as in a liquid or paste; "The children are having fun puddling in paint" work - exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; "I will work hard to improve my grades"; "she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor"

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monkey

noun 1. simian, ape, primate, jackanapes (archaic)

noun 2. rascal, horror, devil, rogue, imp, tyke, scallywag, mischief maker, scamp, nointer Austral. (slang) >> adjective simian >> collective noun troop

Translations

monkey [ˈmʌŋkɪ] n → mono

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monkey [ˈmʌŋkɪ] n → singe m

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monkey [ˈmʌŋkɪ] n → Affe m

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monkey [ˈmʌŋkɪ] n → scimmia