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suck the monkey en · VERB
Meanings
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(slang) To surreptitiously drink alcohol from a cask through an inserted tube.
A new farce, called "The Wigwam," was produced at the Lyceum Theatre on Monday night. [...] As might naturally be expected, Cora has another lover, one Mingo (Mr. Oxberry), known as the "Monkey's Uncle," from his habit of "sucking the monkey."
1847 January 31, “Lyceum Theatre”, in The Observer, London: William [Innell] Clement, →OCLC, page 5, column 3:
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(slang) To drink from a coconut filled surreptitiously with rum, etc.
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Synonyms
bleed the monkey