monkey
/ˈmʌŋki/ · noun
Meaning
- Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from which they are usually, but not universally, distinguished by smaller size, a tail, and cheek pouches.
- Any nonhuman simian primate, including apes.
- A mischievous child.
- A dance move popular in the 1960s.
- Five hundred pounds sterling; five hundred dollars.
- A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.
- To meddle; to mess (with).
- To mimic; to ape.
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