monkey

Definitions

• 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.
• (informal) Any nonhuman simian primate, including apes.
• (informal) A mischievous child.
• A dance move popular in the 1960s.
• (British) Five hundred pounds sterling; (US) five hundred dollars.
• (slang) A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.
• (slang) A person with minimal intelligence and/or an unattractive appearance
• (blackjack) A face card.
• (slang) A menial employee who does a repetitive job, as in code monkey, grease monkey, phone monkey, powder monkey.
• The weight or hammer of a pile driver; a heavy mass of iron, which, being raised high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.
• (historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
• (slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
• A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
• (slang) A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
• (slang) A black person.