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monkey

verb

To meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.

  • Please don't monkey with the controls if you don't know what you're doing.

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Perform, monkey boy, damn you, one feels like yelling at these artists.

The monkey must weigh more than the cat itself.

This is important because the nearest record of a Dryas' monkey is 400km to the west, meaning, if confirmed, the discovery would significantly expand the range of a primate considered critically endangered.

For one thing, the camera traps definitively proved that the lesula was primarily – and oddly – a ground-dwelling monkey.

Compassion for animals in laboratories is not "sentimentality"; it goes hand-in-hand with compassion for humans, both of which would be served by leaving cruel and demonstrably unnecessary monkey experiments behind in favour of truly humane and human-relevant science.

Monkey experiments are not – and cannot be – "humane".

I think if you are looking at your wrist and seeing whichever little guy you've picked - dragon, or monkey - and you can get them new things because you've been more active, it makes it more exciting.

One borough elected a mayor who campaigned as a monkey - the local football club's mascot.

Leaving aside the fact that Harold Wilson won four elections – although not in a row – I seem to recall a remark by Kenneth Clarke that the Tories were in such bad shape in 1997 that Labour could have won with a monkey as leader.

Related: Louis Walsh leaves X Factor: 'This is his chance to be more than a performing monkey' To Now magazine, then, where on the topic of the Simon Cowell wedding Simon Cowell hasn't even announced yet, Walsh declares: "Simon's wedding will be camp!

What do you call a monkey in a minefield?

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