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mon·key (mŭnǵkē)

[Origin unknown.]

noun: pl., -keys. 

  1. Any of various long-tailed, medium-sized members of the order Primates, including the macaques, baboons, guenons, capuchins, marmosets, and tamarins and excluding the anthropoid apes and the prosimians.
  2. One who behaves in a way suggestive of a monkey, as a mischievous child or a mimic.
  3. The iron block of a pile driver.
  4. Slang A person who is mocked, duped, or made to appear a fool: They made a monkey out of him.
  5. Slang Drug addiction: have a monkey on one's back.

verb: -keyed, -key·ing, -keys. 

intransitive verb 

Informal
  1. To play, fiddle, trifle, or tamper with something.
  2. To behave in a mischievous or apish manner: Stop monkeying around!

transitive verb 

To imitate or mimic; ape.