Informal a mischievous or playful trick, joke, or prank: usually used in pl.
Origin of monkeyshine
see shine (noun)monkeyshine
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monkeyshine
noun
Slangoften monkeyshines A mischievous or playful trick; a prank: laughed at my daughter's monkeyshines.
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Noun
(plural monkeyshines)
- A trick or prank like a monkey's; mischief; buffoonery; tomfoolery; monkeyism; shenanigans.
- I have seen about as many monkeyshines from you as I will tolerate.
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