bleed the monkey
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Synonym of suck the monkey (“to surreptitiously drink alcohol from a cask through an inserted tube”).
Slang
Example Sentences
- "He invented the 'monkey fist' — a knot which gives weight to a heaving line; the union plate he called a 'monkey face' and, in times of merrymaking, he frequently 'bled the monkey' to get his grog."