monkey
noun /ˈmʌŋki/
/ˈmʌŋki/
Idioms 
enlarge imagean animal with a long tail, that climbs trees and lives in hot countries. There are several types of monkey and they are related to apes and humans.- Like humans, apes and monkeys live in complex social groupings.
- The disease affects monkeys and humans in similar ways.
- A troop of monkeys crashed their way through the trees.
- Scientists visiting the island encountered a troop of wild monkeys.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- capuchin
- howler
- rhesus
- …
- horde
- troop
- chatter
- hang
- swing
- …
- (informal) a child who is active and likes playing tricks on people
- Come here, you cheeky little monkey!
- (British English, slang) £500 see also grease monkey
Word Originmid 16th cent.: of unknown origin, perhaps from Low German.
Idioms
brass monkeys | brass monkey weather
- (British English, slang) if you say that it is brass monkeys or brass monkey weather, you mean that it is very cold weather
get a monkey off your back
- (informal) to free yourself of something that causes you worry or difficulty
- The team have never beaten Germany and they'll be desperate to get that monkey off their backs.
I don’t/couldn’t give a monkey’s
- (British English, slang) used to say, in a way that is not very polite, that you do not care about something, or are not at all interested in it
- I don’t give a monkey’s whether you want to come or not.
make a monkey (out) of somebody
- (informal) to make somebody seem stupid