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monkey meat

monkey meat noun: tinned meat.

Noun

monkey meat (uncountable)

  1. (US, slang) Tinned meat.
    • ‘You'd better get some sleep,’ I said. ‘We can eat cheese and monkey-meat.’1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 184
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see monkey, meat.

Questions about monkey meat

What does monkey meat mean?
Monkey meat means tinned meat.
What part of speech is monkey meat?
Monkey meat is a noun.

Words near monkey meat in the dictionary

  1. monkey ladder
  2. monkey ladders
  3. monkey lip
  4. monkey lips
  5. monkey man
  6. monkey meat
  7. monkey men
  8. monkey metal
  9. monkey mind
  10. monkey model
  11. monkey models

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