suck the monkey

present singular third person sucks the monkey · participle present sucking the monkey · participle past sucked the monkey · past sucked the monkey

1. slangnauticalTo surreptitiously drink alcohol from a cask through an inserted tube.

   A new farce, called "The Wigwam," was produced at the Lyceum Theatre on Monday night. [...] As might naturally be expected, Cora has another lover, one Mingo (Mr. Oxberry), known as the "Monkey's Uncle," from his habit of "sucking the monkey."

   1847 January 31, “Lyceum Theatre”, in The Observer, London: William [Innell] Clement, →OCLC, page 5, column 3

   Synonyms: bleed the monkey

2. slangTo drink from a coconut filled surreptitiously with rum, etc.