monkey-house
See also: monkey house
English
Alternative forms
Noun
monkey-house (plural monkey-houses)
- An enclosure in which monkeys are kept.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- "The fellow is as full of tricks as the monkey-house at the Zoo."
- A frenetically chaotic place, often said of a place where politicians gather.
- (US, dated) A brothel.
Translations
an enclosure in which monkeys are kept
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a frenetically chaotic place
brothel — see brothel
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