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monkey walk en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (UK, dated, slang) Synonym of monkey run.
    • In pre-war Britain, for example, younger people had mainly gained introductions to the opposite sex through the ‘evening walk’, with many British cities having well-known routes along which groups of young women and men would walk […]. Known colloquially as ‘monkeyruns’ or ‘monkeywalks’, these provided a relatively informal and regulated space for sexual performance and display […] [2013, Phil Hubbard, Cities and Sexualities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 137:

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monkey walks Number=Plur lexicographic
monkeywalk alternative lexicographic

Synonyms

monkey run