Crossword clues for chimp
chimp
- Tarzan's Cheeta, for one
- Small ape, for short
- J. Fred Muggs, e.g
- Bonzo, in a '51 film
- Zip of TV
- Real head-scratcher, informally?
- Pioneer in space
- Orang's kin
- Orang cousin
- Lab primate
- Jungle primate, for short
- J. Fred Muggs
- Gorilla's cousin
- Expressive ape, for short
- Enos or Ham of NASA
- Congo jungle denizen
- Cheetah, for one
- Caesar in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," for one
- Bonobo, e.g., casually
- Arboreal ape from equatorial Africa (abbr)
- Animal that can learn limited sign language
- "Lancelot Link, Secret ___"
- '50s "Today Show" regular J. Fred Muggs, for one
- Early rocket traveler
- Sign language communicator, maybe
- Early astronaut Ham, for one
- Early "astronaut"
- Cheeta, in "Tarzan" films
- Zoo attraction
- Intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests
- Curious George, for one
- Bonzo, for one
- Ape, for short
- J. Fred Muggs was one
- Jungle animal, for short
- Mischief-maker chasing child's a little monkey
- Primate uniting church with devil
- Anthropoid ape
- Devil stalking chief primate
- Deep-fried potato containing head of minute animal
- Zoo favorite
- Tailless primate
- Jane Goodall subject
- Zoo primate
- Bonzo, e.g
- Congo River area denizen
The Collaborative International Dictionary
chimp \chimp\ n. same as chimpanzee.
Syn: chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes.
Wiktionary
n. (context informal English) (short for chimpanzee English) vb. 1 (context informal often pejorative English) To review each image on a digital camera after it is taken. 2 (context informal often pejorative English) To get very excited when showing images on a digital camer
WordNet
n. intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests [syn: chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes]
Usage examples of "chimp".
More than one large cat had been unpleasantly surprised by sword-wielding chimps protecting their young and infirm, and most of the clans loved steel axheads and saws.
The chimps stood rooted, Biggest grunted and peered in disbelief at the blood that spattered into his upturned hand.
After all this time, people were just another tool-using animal in the ecology, like beavers or bowerbirds, still little more than glorified chimps.
The buggers have made cephaline cogents out of large dogs, a cheetah, even some chimps and gorillas.
Those rules were set up so humans and chimps and fins will act in just the right way when Galactics are around.
The lead chimp was dressed as a Gujarati milkman, which the local crowd loved.
Chimps, gorillas, and orangutans are classified as members of the Pongidae family, while humans are the only existing members of the Hominidae family.
A chimp in a sober black suit with a watch-chain looped athwart his bosom, a mortarboard at a rakish angle on his head, stood at the blackboard armed with a cue.
Naked authority over Chimps, Thals, and Shacktown whores who would do nearly anything for next to nothing.
Until a few years ago, the most extensive attempt to communicate with chimpanzees went something like this: A newborn chimp was taken into a household with a newborn baby, and both would be raised together-twin cribs, twin bassinets, twin high chairs, twin potties, twin diaper pails, twin baby powder cans.
He drew a hierarchy that began with God and ran downward through human beings and chimpanzees to dogs and cats and onward to insects and frogs, by way of giving the chimps some sense of the great chain of life.
Chimps can be sly and they can be manipulative, but even the best of them, and Leo is the Einstein of chimpanzees, does not seem to know how to lie.
The brightest of the chimps saw right away that something was amiss with Vendelmans, and started making odd remarks.
Their life cycles clearly and understandably came to an end and they died and the chimps understood it.
These chimps have lived in a closed environment here for decades, and the culture they have evolved is a product of what we have chosen to teach them, compounded by their own innate chimpness plus whatever we have unknowingly transmitted to them about ourselves or them.