monkey chantingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈmʌŋ.ki ˌtʃɑːn.tɪŋ //ˈmʌŋ.ki ˌtʃæn.tɪŋ/UKthe act of insulting black people by making the sound that monkeys make, for example by a crowd at a football game shouting at a black player :
The City midfielder appeared to be the target of monkey chanting from a section of the home crowd.
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Insults & abuse
- arse-licker
- asshole
- be close to the bone idiom
- brickbat
- cut (sb) to the quick idiom
- denigrate
- fuck
- fuck you/them/it idiom
- give someone a mouthful idiom
- insulting
- mouth
- mouthful
- revile
- score
- shit
- sledging
- snowflake
- stick
- take sb's name in vain idiom
- trifle with sb/sth
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Racial issues
monkey chant
noun [ C ] UK
He had been subjected to racist monkey chants.