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monkey wrench
The Collaborative International Dictionary
monkeywrench \monkeywrench\, monkey wrench \monkey wrench\n. A wrench or spanner which has one fixed and one adjustable jaw.
Syn: monkey wrench.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A wrench (spanner) with an adjustable jaw. 2 (context idiomatic English) An unexpected or troublesome problem, obstacle or dilemma.
WordNet
n. adjustable wrench that has one fixed and one adjustable jaw [syn: monkey-wrench]
Wikipedia
The monkey wrench (US) or gas grips (UK) is an adjustable wrench, a later American development of eighteenth-century English coach wrenches. It was popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but is now used only for heavier tasks, having been mostly replaced by the lighter and sleeker shifting adjustable spanner. The term monkey wrench is also used colloquially to refer to the pipe wrench, owing to their broadly similar shapes.
These are also known as a Ford wrench owing to this type of wrench being included in the tool kit supplied with every Ford Model A. They are still used by aircraft technicians, chiefly when large but low torque fasteners are involved.
"Monkey Wrench" is the first single released from the second Foo Fighters album, The Colour and the Shape. The lyrics chronicle the 1997 disintegration of singer/songwriter Dave Grohl's four-year marriage to Jennifer Youngblood. The song peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and at number 12 on the UK Singles Chart.
Monkey wrench may refer to:
- Monkey wrench, an early type of adjustable spanner
- Pipe wrench, often incorrectly called a monkey wrench
- Monkeywrenching, a type of sabotage
- "Monkey Wrench" (song), a 1997 Foo Fighters single
- Monkeywrench (G.I. Joe), a fictional character, member of the Dreadnoks
- Monkey wrench, a pattern in American quilting
Usage examples of "monkey wrench".
You can't tell a left-handed monkey wrench from a reaction engine, yet you ask me for blue prints of a space ship.
And when he got there he started hitting people over the haid with his monkey wrench.
This latest development had thrown a monkey wrench into the whole plan.
As far as I knew at that point, a Fomit could have been anything from a lefthanded monkey wrench to a Polish steak knife.
With the gun to hold off Chia's gang, and with Klein as hostage, there would be a chance to throw a monkey wrench into the mad plan to bomb the starship.
In the scrimmage I made a fool of myself as usual, and slugged the wrong man with a monkey wrench.
And then he faced a new problem, for when he took from his kit the special monkey wrench and fitted it to one of the nuts, he found he could accomplish nothing.
Pulling it open, he drew out what seemed to be a monkey wrench wrapped in sacking.
But who would bury a monkey wrench, even for the best car England ever made?