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monkeywalk

monkeywalk is the alternative form 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

Forms of monkeywalk

pluralmonkeywalks

Questions about monkeywalk

What is monkeywalk the alternative form of?
Monkeywalk is the alternative form of monkey walk.

Words near monkeywalk in the dictionary

  1. monkeyshine
  2. monkeyshines
  3. monkeysona
  4. monkeysonas
  5. monkeyspeak
  6. monkeywalk
  7. monkeywalks
  8. monkeywrench
  9. monkeywrencher
  10. monkeywrenchers
  11. monkeywrenches

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