amerikai:
brit:
1. 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.
He had been visiting an area zoo when a monkey swung from its tree perch, swiped his glasses and hurled them into a hippo hole.
2. Any nonhuman simian primate, including apes.
Chimpanzees are known to form bands to hunt and kill other monkeys.
3. A mischievous child.
She's a cheeky monkey.
4. A dance move popular in the 1960s.
5. Five hundred pounds sterling; five hundred dollars.
6. A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar racing.
7. A person with minimal intelligence and/or an unattractive appearance
8. A face card.
9. A menial employee who does a repetitive job, as in code monkey, grease monkey, phone monkey, powder monkey.
10. 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.
11. A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
12. A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
13. A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
14. A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
15. A black person.
1. To meddle; to mess (with).
Please don't monkey with the controls if you don't know what you're doing.
Szinonimák: fiddle, interfere
2. To mimic; to ape.