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Complete Definition of "monkeyshine"

English

Alternative spellings
monkey-shine

Noun
monkeyshine (plural monkeyshines)

  1. A trick or prank like a monkey's; mischief; buffoonery; tomfoolery; monkeyism; shenanigans.

#: I have seen about as many monkeyshines from you as I will tolerate.

Quotations
1878: w:Augustus Radcliffe Grote|Augustus Radcliffe Grote, w:Popular Science|Popular Science Monthly, XIII. 435.

References
R:Century 1911

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