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  • adjective informal Resembling a chimpanzee or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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chimp +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The plot keeps jumping, chimplike, between San Francisco and a preposterously huge primate shelter in nearby San Bruno, with a lyrical interlude in Marin County's redwood forest.

    'Apes': Something to Thump Chests About Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • By this theory, previous celebrated finds like Lucy (who walked upright but had a chimplike snout) or the 2 million-year-old Homo habilis (strong brow ridges and a flat face) can't ever be placed in a serial progression, but were all candidates in the ultimate game of "Survivor."

    All In The Family 2008

  • I mean can you imagine the outcry if he was depicted chimplike as Bush has been for the last 7 years?

    "The Audacity of Hate." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Instead, we had two weeks of chimplike dominance posturing.

    308 Pigs At The Trough Lindsay Stewart 2008

  • I mean can you imagine the outcry if he was depicted chimplike as Bush has been for the last 7 years?

    "The Audacity of Hate." Ann Althouse 2008

  • After the ape and human lineages split 5 million to 6 million years ago, the chimplike Ardipithecus ramidus inhabited the dense woods of what is now Ethiopia 4.4 million years ago, and Australopithecus anamensis lived in Kenya 4.2 million to 3.9 million years ago.

    The New Old Man 2007

  • He lies all the time, looking right into the camera with a straight, albeit chimplike, face.

    Think Progress » Fact Check: Clinton/Carter Executive Orders Did Not Authorize Warrantless Searches of Americans 2005

  • Robotic takeover is a "risk" for humanity the way coming down from the trees was a risk for our chimplike ancestors.

    The Speculist: The Big Risk 2005

  • Ironically, Dart endured the same prejudice over his find, the perfectly fossilized skull of a young, five-to-six-year-old chimplike creature.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • Ironically, Dart endured the same prejudice over his find, the perfectly fossilized skull of a young, five-to-six-year-old chimplike creature.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

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