monkey meaning

• Noun: monkey (monkeys)  múngkee
  1. Any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) 
  2. One who is playfully mischievous
     - imp, scamp, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag
  Verb: monkey  múngkee
  1. Play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
     - tamper, fiddle 
  2. Do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
     - putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey around, muck about, muck around

  Derived forms: monkeyed, monkeys, monkeying

  Type of: child, fry, kid, manipulate, minor, nestling, nipper, primate, shaver, small fry, tiddler [Brit], tike, tyke, wean [UK, Ireland], work, youngster

  Encyclopedia: Monkey Monkey, Don't!

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  [American slang]
  n. a playful child. (Also a term of address.)
  • Come here, you little monkey!
  • Hey, monkey, where are you going?
  
  
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  [British slang]
  Noun. ¢G500. Occasionally and confusingly also ¢G50.
  
• 
  [Medicine]
  A suborder of PRIMATES consisting of six families: CEBIDAE (New World monkeys),CERCOPITHECIDAE (Old World monkeys),HYLOBATIDAE (gibbons and siamangs),PONGIDAE (great apes),TARSIIDAE (tarsiers),and HOMINIDAE (humans). n : a nonhuman primate mammal with the exception usu. of the lemurs and tarsiers; esp : any of the smaller longer-tailed primates as contrasted with the apes
  

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Examples

1. listen to the jabber of those monkeys.
2. monkeys have a natural inclination for climbing ...
3. altogether we caught ten golden monkeys.
4. tom went to the zoo to watch the monkeys.
5. the monkey leaps from branch to branch.