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monkey

1. n. a playful child. (Also a term of address.) Come here, you little monkey!

2. n. a drug addiction. (see also have a monkey on one’s back.) That monkey of mine is getting hungry again.

See:

• a monkey on (one's) back
• a monkey on back
• barrel of monkeys
• be more fun than a barrel of monkeys
• brass monkey
• brass monkey weather
• brass monkeys
• cheeky monkey
• cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
• crotch-monkey
• crotch-pheasant
• don't monkey around with me
• fool around
• funny as a barrel of monkeys
• get (one's) monkey up
• give a monkey's
• grease monkey
• have a monkey on one’s back
• If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
• I'll be a monkey's uncle!
• left-handed monkey wrench
• make a fool of
• make a monkey of
• make a monkey out of
• mess around with someone
• mess around with something mess about with something
• mess with
• mess with someone/something
• monkey
• monkey around
• monkey around with someone
• monkey around with something
• monkey bite
• monkey business
• monkey off (one's) back
• monkey on (one's) back
• monkey on one's back
• Monkey see, monkey do
• monkey suit
• monkey swill
• monkey talk
• monkey wagon
• monkey wards
• monkey with
• monkey with someone/something
• monkey wrench
• monkey-fart
• monkey's allowance
• monkeys might fly out of my butt
• monkey's uncle
• more fun than a barrel of monkeys
• not give a monkey's
• porch monkey
• powder monkey
• put a (monkey) wrench in(to) the works
• softly, softly, catchee monkey
• spank the monkey
• throw a monkey wrench in the works
• throw a monkey wrench into