A building or enclosure in a zoo in which monkeys are kept.
she is the senior keeper at the Bronx Zoo's monkey house
Example sentencesExamples
- Working here is like working in the monkey house in a zoo.
- They watch the "clowns of the zoo" in the monkey house.
- I went into the monkey house and I stopped in front of the orang-utans.
- Nearly every man, woman and child of this crowd made for the monkey house to see the star attraction in the park.
- I bet the expression on their faces is like the faces of people looking into the monkey house at the zoo.
- Sow bugs form hordes in the warm, smelly monkey house where golden lion tamarins live.
- The scientists put several computers in the monkey house of the local zoo to test their theory.
- It was like a monkey house, and the head monkeys were snooty intellectuals with an axe to grind.
- As we came in, we saw a family with several screaming children go into the monkey house.
- In the monkey house I took a snap of this cheeky chappy.