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monkey walks

monkey walks is the plural of monkey walk.

Meaning of monkey walk

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

Questions about monkey walks

What is monkey walks the plural of?
Monkey walks is the plural of monkey walk.

Words near monkey walks in the dictionary

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

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