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monkey wrencher

monkey wrencher is the alternative form of monkey-wrencher.

Meaning of monkey-wrencher

Noun

monkey-wrencher (plural monkey-wrenchers)

  1. (slang) An activist who sabotages operations perceived as harmful to the natural environment.
    • Howie Wolke, an Earth First! founder and frequent monkey-wrencher, thought "conventional tactics" and "non-violent direct action" were worthwhile techniques for environmentalists.1989, Roderick Frazier Nash, The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 196

Forms of monkey wrencher

pluralmonkey wrenchers

Questions about monkey wrencher

What is monkey wrencher the alternative form of?
Monkey wrencher is the alternative form of monkey-wrencher.

Words near monkey wrencher in the dictionary

  1. Monkey Ward's
  2. monkey wheel
  3. monkey wheels
  4. monkey wrench
  5. monkey wrench in the works
  6. monkey wrencher
  7. monkey wrenchers
  8. monkey wrenches
  9. monkey wrenches in the works
  10. monkey wrenching
  11. monkey's allowance

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