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monkey-house en · NOUN

Meanings

1. An enclosure in which monkeys are kept.
   • "The fellow is as full of tricks as the monkey-house at the Zoo." 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
2. A frenetically chaotic place, often said of a place where politicians gather.
3. (US, dated) A brothel.

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Translations (5)

ru обезья́нник (an enclosure in which monkeys are kept) · ga teach moncaí (an enclosure in which monkeys are kept) · pl małpiarnia (an enclosure in which monkeys are kept) · fr singerie (an enclosure in which monkeys are kept) · ja 獣舎 (an enclosure in which monkeys are kept)