monkey around - meaning and definition. What is monkey around
Diclib.com
ChatGPT AI Dictionary
Enter a word or phrase in any language 👆
Language:

Translation and analysis of words by ChatGPT artificial intelligence

On this page you can get a detailed analysis of a word or phrase, produced by the best artificial intelligence technology to date:

  • how the word is used
  • frequency of use
  • it is used more often in oral or written speech
  • word translation options
  • usage examples (several phrases with translation)
  • etymology

What (who) is monkey around - definition

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Web monkey; Web Monkey; Code Monkey; Codemonkey; Tape monkey; Coding monkey; Software monkey; Code monkey (disambiguation)

monkey around      
Goofing off, especially when you don't have time to goof off.
Dad to Tom, Better do your homework and quit sending words to the pseudodictionary, son.You don't have time to be monkeying around this evening.
monkey around      
v. (colloq.) (AE) (D; intr.) to monkey around with
patas monkey         
SPECIES OF GROUND-DWELLING MONKEY
Patas; Nisnas; Nisnas monkey; Erythrocebus patas; Wadi monkey; Patas Monkey; Hussar monkey; Patas monkey
[p?'t?:]
¦ noun a central African guenon with reddish-brown fur, a black face, and a white moustache. [Erythrocebus patas.]
Origin
C18: patas from Senegalese Fr., from Wolof pata.

Wikipedia

Code monkey

Code monkey may refer to:

  • A computer programmer who is not involved in any aspect of conceptual or design work, but simply writes code to specifications given
  • Code Monkeys, an animated television series
  • "Code Monkey" (song), by Jonathan Coulton
  • CodeMonkey (software), an educational computer environment
Examples of use of monkey around
1. Writer–director Rian Johnson clearly loves the Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler novels – and the movies derived from them – far too much to monkey around with the formula.
2. "These are lies." He indicated, however, that Russia would not "monkey around" if Kosovo declared independence and the West recognized it.
3. Pazit Shavid, manager of the Jerusalem branch of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, says the Interior Ministry and Prime Minister‘s Office can monkey around with semantics as much as they wish, but it‘s still simply a revival of the Safdie plan.