ape /āp/

1. A monkey
2. Specif an anthropoid primate
3. A large monkey without a tail or with a very short one
4. A mimic
5. An imitator, a coarse, clumsy or stupid person (chiefly N American)

1. To mimic
2. To imitate

apeˈdom noun

apeˈhood noun

apˈery noun

1. The conduct of someone who apes
2. Any ape-like action
3. A colony of apes (rare)

apˈish adjective

1. Like an ape
2. Imitative
3. Foppish, silly

apˈishly adverb

apˈishness or (Carlyle) apˈism noun

apeˈman noun

Any of several extinct primates thought to have been intermediate in development between man and the higher apes

apeˈshit adjective (vulgar sl)

1. Berserk
2. Destructively crazy
3. Extremely excited (see also go ape below)

go ape (or vulgar apeshit ; slang)

To go crazy (with over or for)

God's ape (obsolete)

A born fool

make someone one's ape or put an ape in someone's hood (obsolete)

To make a fool of someone

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• institutionalisation
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