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monkey parade

monkey parade noun: synonym of monkey run.

Noun

monkey parade (plural monkey parades)

  1. (UK, dated, slang) Synonym of monkey run.
    • These twilight parades of young people[…]—unkindly critics, blind to the inner meanings of things, call them, I believe, Monkeys' Parades—the shop apprentices, the young work girls, the boy clerks and so forth, stirred by mysterious intimations, spend their first-earned money upon collars and...1911, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 3, in The New Machiavelli, London: John Lane; The Bodley Head […], →OCLC, book the first (The Making of a Man), page 66
    • […1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company, page 76
    Synonyms:
    monkey run

Synonyms of monkey parade

Forms of monkey parade

pluralmonkey parades
alternative formmonkeys' parade

Questions about monkey parade

What does monkey parade mean?
Monkey parade means synonym of monkey run.
What part of speech is monkey parade?
Monkey parade is a noun.
What is the plural of monkey parade?
The plural of monkey parade is monkey parades.

Words near monkey parade in the dictionary

  1. monkey orange
  2. monkey oranges
  3. monkey orchestra
  4. monkey orchestras
  5. monkey orchid
  6. monkey parade
  7. monkey parades
  8. monkey patch
  9. monkey patched
  10. monkey patches
  11. monkey patching

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