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Walschaert or Baker valve gear on locomotive. Monkey house is caboose. Monkey suit is passenger trainman's uniform or any other smart-looking uniform. Monkey tail is back-up hose
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n 1. A person who is mocked, duped, or made to appear a fool: They made a monkey out of him. 2. Drug addiction: have a monkey on one's back.
An imaginary collection at the Zoological Gardens, which are supposed to receive care and attention from persons fitted by nature for such office and for little else. An idle and useless person is often told that he is only fit to lead the blind monkeys to evacuate.
Monkeys live in mangroves.
When a crew has been on duty sixteen hours and is caught out on the road, the monkey gets them and they are required by ICC rules to tie -up until a new crew comes. (See dogcatchers)
Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
In the days of sailing ships, cannon balls were often stacked in what was called a monkey, usually made of brass. When the weather got really cold the monkeys, being brass, would contract at a different rate than the iron of the cannonballs, forcing the cannon balls to fall onto the ship's deck. (A well-known, but far-fetched explanation.)
morphine
Grabbing a school-mate, getting him in a headlock and rubbing your knuckles up and down his skull. Painful. "I got him and gave him a monkey scrub until his eyes watered.".
Low-income housing with no air conditioning led to many blacks in the projects sitting on the porch to stay cool. It was said that they looked like monkeys at the zoo. The adults were called "porch monkeys," and the children were "yard apes."
cigarette made from cocaine paste and tobacco
to be addicted
The pass of a passenger who is riding free
methadone
A person who must travel in the trunk of a car because there are no seats left. "Trunky monkies" sometimes get this punishment because of poor behavior; "You're the trunky monkey on the way home!"
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v. t. & i.
To act or treat as a monkey does; to ape; to act in a grotesque or meddlesome manner.
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A long-tailed, crested Javan monkey (Semnopithecus mitratus). The head, the crest, and the upper surface of the tail, are black.
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A South American monkey, one of the sapajous.
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In a leaping position; springing forward; -- applied especially to the squirrel, weasel, and rat, also to the cat, greyhound, monkey, etc.
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Any one of several species of small, soft-furred South American monkeys belonging to Callithrix, Chrysothrix, and allied genera; as, the collared teetee (Callithrix torquatus), and the squirrel teetee (Chrysothrix sciurea). Called also pinche, titi, and saimiri. See Squirrel monkey, under Squirrel.
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Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Pithecia. They have large ears, and a long hairy tail which is not prehensile.
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A variety of the bonnet monkey.
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One of the Strepsorhina; a lemur. See Illust. under Monkey.
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A large monkey (Macacus silenus) native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo.
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A Brazilian tree. See Lecythis, and Monkey-pot.
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A long-tailed monkey (Semnopitchecus melalophus) native of Sumatra. It has a crest of black hair. The forehead and cheeks are fawn color, the upper parts tawny and red, the under parts white. Called also black-crested monkey, and sinpae.
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A howling monkey, or howler.
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A small South American monkey; a marmoset.
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The squirrel monkey.
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Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, having long and prehensile tails. Some of the species are called also capuchins. The bonnet sapajou (C. subcristatus), the golden-handed sapajou (C. chrysopus), and the white-throated sapajou (C. hypoleucus) are well known species. See Capuchin.
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Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially M. ursulus.
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A South African monkey (Cercopithecus pygerythrus, / Lelandii). The upper parts are grayish green, finely specked with black. The cheeks and belly are reddish white.
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A small African monkey (Cercopithecus, / Miopithecus, talapoin) -- called also melarhine.
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