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monkey wrench

1. A hand tool with adjustable jaws for turning nuts of varying sizes.

2. Informal Something that disrupts: He threw a monkey wrench into our plans.

[Origin unknown.]

monkey wrench

monkey wrench

(Engineering / Tools) a wrench with adjustable jaws

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Noun

monkey wrench - adjustable wrench that has one fixed and one adjustable jaw

monkey-wrench

adjustable spanner, adjustable wrench - an adjustable tool for gripping hexagonal nuts, with an adjustings crew in the head of the implement

Translations

monkey wrench n → chiave f inglese a rullino

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monkey wrench (redirected from monkey wrenches)

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