monkey

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That will happen the day a monkey comes out of your ass you piece of shit.

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Quick take

any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of monkey gathered in one view.

noun

any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)

noun

one who is playfully mischievous

verb

play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly; "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk"; "The reporter fiddle with the facts"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for monkey.

noun

any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)

noun

one who is playfully mischievous

See also: imp, scamp, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag

verb

play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly; "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk"; "The reporter fiddle with the facts"

verb

do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"

Example sentences

That will happen the day a monkey comes out of your ass you piece of shit.

Well, I didn't actually even need to code a chaos monkey...

Don't undersell yourself as a code monkey jobbing for work.

DRM seems to just be a monkey-patch to try to get that marginal cost to be non-zero.

Where he went from being a passionately engaged team member to being a comfortably-paid code monkey.

But as I read more, I discovered that the community seems pretty heavily tilted against monkey-patching now.

The US seems to think it can get highly qualified teachers by providing working environments akin to code monkey cubicle farms, and they're simply wrong.

As a monk translated the wishes of the holy monkeys, I discovered that I was required to rewrite the OS of their ancient computer, which had failed to reboot, back in 1839.

We build "frameworks", where one must tinker and monkey-patch and fork to such a degree that only another programmer can download and assemble a working system, let alone customize it.

Android brought you an OS that runs on multiple devices with a relatively open ecosystem, with the drawbacks of a less smooth experience and allowing carriers/OEMs monkey around with Android.

As I shifted from being a server monkey to programmer, I realized that most of the developer guys had never worked in another industry before, were high-school and college drop-outs, and most of their code was crap.

They were about to give up, as they stumbled onto me, and realized that I was the reincarnation of ChiChu Gomptar, the lead programmer for the CS monkey gang, which had served their monkey king, the creator of this computer.

I had made the same mistake that many others make when looking beyond their own monkey circles - that even people with little education make rational decisions about their lives, they're not mindless machines pushing out kids because that's what tradition or society demands.