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monkey walk

monkey walk noun: synonym of monkey run.

Noun

monkey walk (plural monkey walks)

  1. (UK, dated, slang) Synonym of monkey run.
    • In pre-war Britain, for example, younger people had mainly gained introductions to the opposite sex through the ‘evening walk’, with many British cities having well-known routes along which groups of young women and men would walk […]. Known colloquially as ‘monkeyruns’ or ‘monkeywalks’, these...[2013, Phil Hubbard, Cities and Sexualities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 137
    Synonyms:
    monkey run

Synonyms of monkey walk

Forms of monkey walk

pluralmonkey walks
alternative formmonkeywalk

Questions about monkey walk

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

Words near monkey walk in the dictionary

  1. monkey trails
  2. monkey trap
  3. monkey traps
  4. monkey trial
  5. monkey up
  6. monkey walk
  7. monkey walks
  8. Monkey Ward's
  9. monkey wheel
  10. monkey wheels
  11. monkey wrench

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