Usually means: Primate with tail, often arboreal.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word monkey:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. monkey: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. monkey: Merriam-Webster
  3. monkey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. monkey: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. monkey: Collins English Dictionary
  6. monkey: Vocabulary.com
  7. Monkey, monkey: Wordnik
  8. monkey: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Monkey, monkey: Wiktionary
  10. monkey: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. monkey: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. monkey: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. monkey: Dictionary.com
  14. monkey: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. monkey: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Monkey (Chinese mythology), Monkey (George Michael song), Monkey (TV series), Monkey (advertising character), Monkey (band), Monkey (book), Monkey (character), Monkey (dance), Monkey (disambiguation), Monkey (novel), Monkey (slang), Monkey (song), Monkey (television series), Monkey (zodiac), Monkey, The Monkey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Monkey: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. monkey: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. monkey: Rhymezone
  20. monkey: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. monkey: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Monkey: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. monkey: FreeDictionary.org
  24. monkey: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. monkey: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. monkey: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Monkey (animal), monkey: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. monkey: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Monkey (animal), monkey: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. monkey: Idioms

Slang (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Monkey (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. monkey, monkey, monkey: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. monkey: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  5. Monkey: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  6. Monkey: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  7. Monkey, The Monkey: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  2. Monkey: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See monkeyed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (strictly) A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.
noun:  (loosely, sometimes proscribed) Any simian primate other than hominids, any monkey or ape.
noun:  (figurative, generally derogatory) A human considered to resemble monkeys in some way, including:
noun:  (informal, sometimes offensive) A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child.
noun:  (slang) The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing.
noun:  (derogatory) Synonym of idiot: a person of minimal intelligence.
noun:  (derogatory) Synonym of uggo: an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's.
noun:  (slang, derogatory) Synonym of puppet: a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another.
noun:  (slang, usually derogatory) A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence.
noun:  (slang, highly derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.
noun:  (slang, vulgar, uncommon) A penis.
noun:  (historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
noun:  (slang, nautical) The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.
noun:  The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.
noun:  A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
noun:  (slang) Synonym of five hundred, especially (British) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars.
noun:  (blackjack) Synonym of face card.
noun:  (slang) A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
noun:  (slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
noun:  (dance) A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To meddle; to mess (with).
verb:  (transitive) To mimic; to ape.
noun:  The ninth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.

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