Usually means: Imitating actions playfully like monkeys.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. monkeying: Merriam-Webster
  2. monkeying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. monkeying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. monkeying: Vocabulary.com
  5. Monkeying, monkeying: Wordnik
  6. monkeying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. monkeying: Wiktionary
  8. monkeying: Dictionary.com
  9. monkeying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. monkeying: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monkeying: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monkeying: Medical dictionary

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  1. monkeying: Idioms

(Note: See monkey as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Monkey)

noun:  (strictly) A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.
noun:  (loosely, sometimes proscribed) Any simian primate other than hominids, any monkey or ape.
noun:  (figurative, generally derogatory) A human considered to resemble monkeys in some way, including:
noun:  (informal, sometimes offensive) A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child.
noun:  (slang) The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing.
noun:  (derogatory) Synonym of idiot: a person of minimal intelligence.
noun:  (derogatory) Synonym of uggo: an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's.
noun:  (slang, derogatory) Synonym of puppet: a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another.
noun:  (slang, usually derogatory) A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence.
noun:  (slang, highly derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.
noun:  (slang, vulgar, uncommon) A penis.
noun:  (historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
noun:  (slang, nautical) The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.
noun:  The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.
noun:  A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
noun:  (slang) Synonym of five hundred, especially (British) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars.
noun:  (blackjack) Synonym of face card.
noun:  (slang) A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
noun:  (slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
noun:  (dance) A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To meddle; to mess (with).
verb:  (transitive) To mimic; to ape.
noun:  The ninth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
▸ Also see monkey


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