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n. (context plurale tantum informal chiefly ironic or humorous English) winged monkeys
Usage examples of "flying monkeys".
Of course, nobody believed her story about talking animals and people no taller than an eight-year-old child and an animated scarecrow and a woodman made of tin and witches and flying monkeys and all that.
In a dream, Orlando is visited by the mystery woman also seen by Paul Jonas, and she tells them she will give them assistance, but as the temple draws them closer and closer, they find only the Wicked Tribe, a group of very young children they had met outside the network, who wear the sim-forms of tiny yellow flying monkeys.
She used the broom as a sort of balustrade, stepping down from the sky like one of her flying monkeys.
They were innumerable and of every possible form and size, from the white midges of the night and multi-winged flying worms to those revoltingly naked-looking larger creatures which might have passed for plucked flying monkeys if they had not been carnivorous and worse.
After a moment or two of staring blankly at the flying monkeys, he pulls himself out of it, with a visible physical effort, sitting up as straight as the settee will allow, and clapping his hands together.
Running to a window, he looked out and saw what appeared to be flying monkeys soaring over the dark countryside.
Verenne clutched the back of Massarde's chair, hovering like one of the flying monkeys over the Wicked Witch of the West.