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monkey parades

monkey parades is the plural of monkey parade.

Meaning of monkey parade

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
    Synonyms:
    monkey run

Questions about monkey parades

What is monkey parades the plural of?
Monkey parades is the plural of monkey parade.

Words near monkey parades in the dictionary

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

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