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  1. brass monkey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. brass monkey: Collins English Dictionary
  3. brass monkey: Vocabulary.com
  4. Brass Monkey, brass monkey: Wiktionary
  5. brass monkey: Dictionary.com
  6. Brass Monkey (band), Brass Monkey (cocktail), Brass Monkey (film), Brass Monkey (song), Brass Monkey, Brass monkey (colloquialism), Brass monkey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. brass monkey: Rhymezone
  8. brass monkey: Free Dictionary
  9. brass monkey: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. brass monkey: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. brass monkey, brass monkey: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (brass monkey)

adjective:  (idiomatic, of the weather) Very cold.
noun:  A brand of inexpensive liquor.
noun:  A cocktail of vodka, rum and orange juice, sometimes with the addition of Galliano.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Brass Monkey (“cocktail”) [A brand of inexpensive liquor.]

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