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monkeywrencher

monkeywrencher 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 monkeywrencher

pluralmonkeywrenchers

Questions about monkeywrencher

What is monkeywrencher the alternative form of?
Monkeywrencher is the alternative form of monkey-wrencher.

Words near monkeywrencher in the dictionary

  1. monkeysonas
  2. monkeyspeak
  3. monkeywalk
  4. monkeywalks
  5. monkeywrench
  6. monkeywrencher
  7. monkeywrenchers
  8. monkeywrenches
  9. monkeywrenching
  10. monkfish
  11. monkfishes

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