monkey meat

noun

Tinned meat.

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Meanings

nounmonkey meat (uncountable)
  1. USslanguncountablegovernmentTinned meat.

    ‘You'd better get some sleep,’ I said. ‘We can eat cheese and monkey-meat.’

    1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 184
  2. uncountableUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see monkey, meat.
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APA

monkey meat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monkey%20meat

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“monkey meat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monkey%20meat. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “monkey meat,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monkey%20meat.

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