ape
Wild; crazy.
Monkeys · Khỉ 94
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ape in
To buy recklessly large amounts of an untried cryptocurrency.
bleed the monkey
Synonym of suck the monkey (“to surreptitiously drink alcohol from a cask through an inserted tube”).
bush ape
Synonym of logger (“a worker whose occupation is to harvest trees”)
butt monkey
An annoying and irksome person.
bắt chước như khỉ
monkey see, monkey do
bố khỉ
(interjection) darn it; dang it
cheese monkey
Synonym of cheese-eating surrender monkey.
cheese-eating surrender monkey
A French person.
chunky monkey
A mildly obese person.
code monkey
A computer programmer.
cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
Extremely cold.
cầu khỉ
(noun) kind of bamboo or wooden passway across a stream or gully
go ape
To become wildly excited or enthusiastic.
if you pay bananas, you get monkeys
Synonym of if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
juice monkey
A steroid or testosterone abuser.
khỉ
(noun) monkey (primate)
khỉ ho cò gáy
(adjective) ridiculously remote; in the middle of nowhere
khỉ mặt chó
(noun) mandrill
khỉ đầu chó
(noun) baboon
khỉ đột
(noun) a gorilla (a kind of ground-dwelling great ape)
like a monkey on a stick
To be restless and agitated.
like a raped ape
With great rapidity.
like butter on a bald monkey
Very smooth.
monkey about
Synonym of monkey around.
monkey bag
A sailor's small money bag, worn around the neck.
monkey bike
The Honda Z series, a line of minibikes.
monkey boat
A long, narrow kind of half-decked canal boat.
monkey business
Mischievous behaviour.
monkey butt
A soreness or rash around the buttock area, resulting from a long period of sweaty activity such as running or cycling.
monkey dust
Synonym of bath salt (“any of a class of methylenedioxypyrovalerone-based psychoactive recreational drugs”).
monkey jacket
A hospital gown.
monkey meat
Tinned meat.
monkey metal
Any cheap metal alloy, often with zinc, that is easy to cast.
monkey motion
The excessive movement of a mechanical device.
monkey parade
Synonym of monkey run.
monkey patch
A patch which alters the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.
monkey points
participation points
monkey pump
A straw inserted through a gimlet-hole into a cask for the purpose of covertly taking sips of the contents.
monkey strap
A type of safety strap.
monkey swill
Alcohol that is very unpleasant or of low quality.
monkey talk
Incoherent or distorted speech, particularly of a person under the influence of drugs.
monkey walk
Synonym of monkey run.
Monkey Ward's
Montgomery Ward, an American retail enterprise.
monkeys might fly out of my butt
A response to a suggested situation that one thinks has no chance of ever occurring.
nấm đầu khỉ
(noun) an edible mushroom, Hericium erinaceus
phone monkey
A receptionist or secretary charged with receiving or vetting phone calls.
script monkey
An operator at a call center who works entirely from a script and is therefore unable to help with any problems for which no script exists.
scut monkey
A new medical student, beginning his/her clinical rotations (often after the first two years of a four-year medical program), or a new resident who is rotating off-service.
skill monkey
In roleplaying games, a character with a number of special abilities.
suck the monkey
To surreptitiously drink alcohol from a cask through an inserted tube.
ape leader
a person who is followed by others without being a true leader
as clever as a cartload of monkeys
Very intelligent or clever
barrel of monkeys
a fun and lively situation
brass monkey
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
brass monkeys
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
cheeky monkey
A mischievous or playful person
cái con khỉ
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cái, con, khỉ.
funny as a barrel of monkeys
Very funny.
get one's monkey up
to become annoyed or irritated
give a monkey's
care little about something
grease monkey
a person who enjoys working with machines, especially cars
I'll be a monkey's uncle
I'm extremely surprised
if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
Hiring cheap workers results in poor quality work
khỉ không đuôi
(noun) ape
kill the chicken to scare the monkey
Punish one to warn or intimidate others
make a monkey out of
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
monkey
To suck the monkey; to suck or draw wine, or any other liquor, privately out of a cask, by means of a straw, or small tube. Monkey's allowance; more kicks than halfpence. Who put that monkey on horseback without tying his legs? vulgar wit on a bad horseman.
monkey
Spirit or ill temper; "to get one’s MONKEY up," to rouse his passion. A man is said to have his MONKEY up or the MONKEY on his back, when he is "riled," or out of temper; this is old, and was probably in allusion originally to the evil spirit which was supposed to be always present with a man; also under similar circumstances a man is said to have his back or hump up.
monkey around
to fool around or waste time
monkey board
In the old-fashioned horsed kntfeboard omnibuses, the step on which the conductor stood, and on which he often skipped about like a monkey.
monkey paw
A situation where a wish is fulfilled, but with unexpected and undesirable consequences.
monkey puzzle
The Chilean pine, Araucaria imbricata, whose twisted and prickly branches puzzle even a monkey to climb.
monkey see, monkey do
People often imitate what they see others doing
monkey spoons
Spoons having on the handle a heart surmounted by a monkey, at one time given in Holland at marriages, christenings, and funerals. At weddings they were given to some immediate relative of the bride; at christenings and funerals to.* the cfficiating clergyman. Among the Dutch, drinking is called "sucking the monkey," be- eanse the early morning appetizer of rum and salt was taken in a monkey spoon.
monkey tricks
Mischievous, illnatured, or deceitful actions.
monkey up
to mess something up or make a mistake
monkey wrench
Something that causes problems or disrupts plans
monkey's allowance
More kicks than halfpence. The allusion is to the monkeys formerly carried about for show; they picked up the halfpence, but carried them to the master, who kept kicking or ill-treating the poor creatures to urge them to incessant tricks.
monkey's paw
A situation where a wish is granted but with unexpected and undesirable consequences
monkey’s allowance
To get blows instead of alms, more kicks than halfpence.
mud monkey
a person who enjoys playing in muddy conditions
naked ape
A human being, emphasizing their primitive or animalistic nature
powder monkey
A boy on board a ship of war, whose business is to fetch powder from the magazine.
softly, softly, catchee monkey
Act gently and patiently to achieve a goal
spank the monkey
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
the organ grinder, not the monkey
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
throw a monkey wrench in the works
To cause problems or disrupt plans
throw a monkey wrench into the works
To cause problems or disrupt plans
to get one's monkey up
To be riled or earaged; monkeys are extremely irritable and easily provoked.
to monkey with
To tamper with or play mischievous tricks. To monkey with the cards is to try to arrange them so that the deal will not be fair; to monkey with the milk is to add water to it and then sell it as pure and unadulterated.
to suck the monkey
Sailor's slang for surreptitiously sucking liquor from a cask through a straw (see MONKEY, above); and when milk has been taken from a coconut, and rum has been substituted, "sucking the monkey" is drinking this mm.
trouser monkey
The penis.
wine of ape
"I trow that ye have drunken win of ape" — i.e. wine to make you drunk; in French, vin de singe. There is a Talmud parable which says that Satan came one day to drink with Noah, and slew a lamb, a lion, a pig, and an ape, to teach Noah that man before wine is in him is a lamb, when he drinks moderately he is a lion, when like a sot he is a swine, but after that any further excess makes him an ape that senselessly chatters and jabbers.