Crossword clues for monkey
monkey
- Zoo swinger
- Chimp cousin
- Baboon, e.g
- Capuchin, e.g
- Organ grinder's pet
- Organ grinder's animal
- Organ grinder's aide
- Macaque, e.g
- Hurdy-gurdy rider
- Business beginner
- Araucaria — evergreen conifer
- Animal with bars or business?
- ____ business
- Primate reportedly observed a Scotsman of great importance
- Adjustable tool
- Reckon why men adjusted spanner
- Fanatic going after primate’s bit of food
- 60's dance
- 1960s dance, with "the"
- Any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
- One who is playfully mischievous
- Dance of the mid-60's
- Dance of the 60's
- King's tucked into bread loaves or snacks
- Small primate
- Araucaria - evergreen conifer
- Long-tailed primate
- Primate’s Mass being performed by principal
- Primate ready to receive king
- Illicit affairs of spymaster running major industry
- Day important for primate
- Zoo favorite
- Trifle (with)
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The monkey is a novelty dance, most popular in 1963. The dance was popularized by two R&B records: Major Lance's " The Monkey Time", and the Miracles' " Mickey's Monkey" both Top 10 Pop hits released during the summer of 1963.
The monkey is often referenced on the animated series Johnny Bravo (in every theme song in addition to many times in the actual show), although it may be a completely different dance. The TV series The Simpsons also referenced the dance at least twice (in seasons 4 and 8). The thrash metal band Exodus reference the dance in their song "The Toxic Waltz" (from Fabulous Disaster) with the lyric "Used to do the monkey, but now it's not cool". Characters in the anime series Overman King Gainer do the monkey in the opening animation and in the show itself.
The Monkey
- Taking a fighter's crouch, face your partner and stand with feet apart, knees bent. Bend arms and close fists, thumbs up.
- Bend forward from waist to the left, raising right arm. As your body bobs, your head also bobs forward on each count. The whole effect is jerky.
- Straighten up to original position.
- Bend forward from waist toward your partner, facing centre, switching arms as you do so.
- Straighten to original position. Hands and head should give impression of monkey holding two bananas.
- Bend forward from waist to the right. Straighten to original position.
- Bob back to centre, bending at waist and again switching hands.
- Repeat entire pattern. Counts are double time, hitting every accent in the music.
Monkeys are haplorhine ("dry-nosed") primates, a paraphyletic group generally possessing tails and consisting of approximately 260 known living species. Many monkey species are tree-dwelling ( arboreal), although there are species that live primarily on the ground, such as baboons. Most species are also active during the day ( diurnal). Monkeys are generally considered to be intelligent, particularly Old World monkeys.
Lemurs, lorises, and galagos are not monkeys; instead they are strepsirrhine ("wet-nosed") primates. Like monkeys, tarsiers are haplorhine primates; however, they are also not monkeys. There are two major types of monkey: New World monkeys (platyrrhines) from South and Central America and Old World monkeys ( catarrhines of the superfamily Cercopithecoidea) from Africa and Asia. Hominoid apes (gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans), which all lack tails, are also catarrhines but are not considered monkeys. (Tailless monkeys may be called "apes", incorrectly according to modern usage; thus the tailless Barbary macaque is sometimes called the "Barbary ape".) Because Old World monkeys are more closely related to hominoid apes than to New World monkeys, yet the term "monkey" excludes these closer relatives, monkeys are referred to as a paraphyletic group. Simians ("monkeys") and tarsiers emerged within haplorrhines some 60 million years ago. New World monkeys and catarrhine monkeys emerged within the simians some 35 millions years ago. Old World monkeys and Hominoidea emerged within the catarrhine monkeys some 25 millions years ago. Extinct basal simians such as Aegyptopithecus or Parapithecus [35-32 million years ago] are also considered monkeys by primatologists.
Monkey is a third wave ska band based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their musical influences include the Skatalites, Prince Buster, the Specials, and non-ska artists such as: Elvis Costello, David Byrne and Tito Puente. Monkey has released four albums, the first two as independent releases, the next two by Asian Man Records. Their debut album ¡Changito!, was listed as San Jose's Best Independent Release for 1998. They have toured the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe, and have earned several nominations and awards, including winning the California Music Award (Bammie) in 1999.
The band has gone on to tour the world and has recorded several albums. Monkey's music can be heard on several compilations, as well as movie and video game soundtracks.
"Monkey" is a US number-one hit song by George Michael. It was released as a single in 1988 and reached #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #13 on the UK Singles Chart. "Monkey" debuted at #42 on 9 July 1988, reaching #1 for two weeks, beginning 27 August 1988.
"Monkey" became George Michael's eighth #1 US single, and the fourth consecutive #1 from the Faith album. George Michael joined Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston as three artists who all had four or more consecutive number one singles during the 1987-1988 era, from one album ( Michael Jackson scored five #1 hits from a single album (Bad) while Whitney Houston scored seven consecutive #1 hits from two albums).
"Monkey" also reached number one in the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart for two weeks and became his first dance number one. When the song was released as a single, the single version was remixed by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.
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Usage examples of "monkey".
The Pope would die and the circus would actually begin with the tawdry tinkle of the hurdy-gurdy and monkeys on chains, the trumpet fanfare of a Fellini movie and the clowns and all the freaks and aerialists joining hands, dancing, capering across the screen.
If four particles of an agent in a given volume of air killed at least 50 percent of the monkeys exposed to an aerosol, we could assume that ten particles would have an equally lethal effect on human beings.
When we exposed monkeys to an aerosol of the highly virulent India-1, they contracted smallpox within one to five days.
Little monkeys, she muttered affectionately, recalling the scene which had been enacted in the driveway a short while before.
She imagined the smell of the rain forest and the chatter of monkeys, the rustle of agoutis, the slither of anacondas, the screech of macaws.
Short-chain aliphatic compounds are elaborated by female monkeys in response to estradiol, and these are of consuming interest to the males.
The silence was scarcely disturbed by the howling of jaguars and the chattering of the monkeys, the latter appearing to particularly irritate Master Jup.
Captain Audion, Harold Smith knew that whatever his carefully laid plans had been, Remo had thrown a monkey wrench into them by disabling KNNN.
I gave the monkey wide berth, nearly knocked into a huge betasselled sombrero someone had perched on a marble bust of the third Duke, avoided the peculiar green drink thrust in my direction by a woman dressed predominantly in beads and fringe, and escaped.
The young engineer, closely followed by Bim, walked for several blocks without seeing or hearing anything of the runaway monkey.
I am the greatest owl, monkey, baboon, rascal, oaf, ignoramus, blockhead, buffoon, or what you will.
Foye, in her buxom cheeriness, was drawn to give some of it forth to the uncouth-looking, companionless girl, and not only began a chat with her, after the momentary stir in the street was over, and she had settled herself upon her stool, and leaning her back against a tree, set vigorously to work again at knitting a stout blue yarn stocking, but also treated Bubby and Baby to some bits of her sweet merchandise, and told them about the bears and the monkeys that had gone by, shut up in the gay, red-and-yellow-painted wagons.
Parsnip and Bunion, their monkey faces sharp and cunning with hidden knowledge.
Presumably crouched on the life-jacket at the back of his neck, the monkey was burdenless and undemanding, almost non-existent.
I am a caiman, an anaconda, a jaguar shaman, but never a monkey shaman.