beak vs monkey

beak

noun
  • cocaine. 

  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads. 

  • A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton). 

  • The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed. 

  • That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee. 

  • A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc. 

  • A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc. 

  • A justice of the peace; a magistrate. 

  • The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. 

  • The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal. 

  • The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. 

  • A toe clip. 

  • A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead. 

  • Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant. 

  • Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land. 

  • A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off. 

verb
  • To play truant. 

  • Seize with the beak. 

  • Strike with the beak. 

monkey

noun
  • A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion. 

  • A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry. 

  • The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer. 

  • A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child. 

  • The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing. 

  • Any simian primate other than hominids, any monkey or ape. 

  • A black, a black person. 

  • Synonym of idiot: a person of minimal intelligence. 

  • Synonym of five hundred, especially (Britain) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars. 

  • A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence. 

  • A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions. 

  • Synonym of puppet: a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another. 

  • A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches. 

  • Synonym of uggo: an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's. 

  • The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog. 

  • A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century. 

  • A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering. 

  • Synonym of face card. 

verb
  • To meddle; to mess (with). 

  • To mimic; to ape. 

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