Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mischievous or playful trick; a prank.
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- noun A
trick orprank like a monkey's;mischief ;buffoonery ;tomfoolery ; monkeyism;shenanigans .
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Examples
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When the banks get a whiff of money to be made, or that you are going to give them the old monkeyshine ... whoosh!
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The adjectives "elfin" and "colossal" seldom keep company together, but this instance marks a grand exception; it is a monkeyshine of unprecedented scale.
'The Lives of John Lennon' Goldman, Albert 1989
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"I did cut a monkeyshine or two," admitted the young man.
Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple
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BARRING sociology (which is yet, of course, scarcely a science at all, but rather a monkeyshine which happens to pay, like play-acting or theology), psychology is the youngest of the sciences, and hence chiefly guesswork, empiricism, hocus-pocus, poppycock.
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"It's not just aimless monkeyshine shenanigans," Setzler insisted.
unknown title 2009
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To: Cinnamon Girl; Pharmboy; forkinsocket; blam; Alouette; dennisw; monkeyshine
Latest Articles 2008
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'Cause I'm not going along with this monkeyshine about unified.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008
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To: neverdem; Lando Lincoln; quidnunc;. cnI redruM; SJackson; dennisw; monkeyshine;
Latest Articles 2008
nycanthro commented on the word monkeyshine
Most often used in the plural. (I personally have never heard it used otherwise NorthAtlantic U.S.) Mischief attributed to a person.
January 20, 2009