Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

monkey parade

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English

Syllables: mon-key -pa-rade
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of monkey run.

British usage; Dated; Slang

Example Sentences

"These twilight parades of young people[…]—unkindly critics, blind to the inner meanings of things, call them, I believe, Monkeys' Parades—the shop apprentices, the young work girls, the boy clerks and so forth, stirred by mysterious intimations, spend their first-earned money upon collars and ties[…] and come valiantly into the vague transfiguring mingling of gaslight and evening, to walk up and down, to eye meaningly, even to accost and make friends."
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Usage

British usage
Dated
Slang

Inflected Forms

monkey parades (plural) monkeys' parade (alternative)

Synonyms

monkey run

Questions

What does monkey parade mean?: Synonym of monkey run.

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