monkey walk

English

Alternative forms
  • monkeywalk

Noun

monkey walk (plural monkey walks)

  1. (Britain, dated slang) Synonym of monkey run
    • [2013, Phil Hubbard, Cities and Sexualities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 137:
      In pre-war Britain, for example, younger people had mainly gained introductions to the opposite sex through the ‘evening walk’, with many British cities having well-known routes along which groups of young women and men would walk […] . Known colloquially as ‘monkeyruns’ or ‘monkeywalks’, these provided a relatively informal and regulated space for sexual performance and display […]]
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