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monkeys' parade

monkeys' parade is the alternative form 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

Forms of monkeys' parade

pluralmonkeys' parades

Questions about monkeys' parade

What is monkeys' parade the alternative form of?
Monkeys' parade is the alternative form of monkey parade.

Words near monkeys' parade in the dictionary

  1. monkeys in the middle
  2. monkeys in the woodpile
  3. monkeys might fly out of my butt
  4. monkeys on a stick
  5. monkeys up
  6. monkeys' parade
  7. monkeys' weddings
  8. monkeyshine
  9. monkeyshines
  10. monkeysona
  11. monkeysonas

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