monkeyshines
Example Sentences
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This weekend, anyway, they preferred watching more serious monkeyshines of the Planet of the Apes species.
From Time • Aug. 7, 2011
Around the league he is known as a "loner" who shuns locker-room monkeyshines.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Some British teaplanters found the Dafias' monkeyshines vastly amusing and rewarded them liberally with gifts of precious salt, clothes and trinkets.
From Time Magazine Archive
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An orangutan called Clyde does cute monkeyshines that recall the heyday of Jack Lescoulie and J. Fred Muggs on the Today show.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"Run, then; an' if Job abuses you, just let me know it, an' I'll keep him from cuttin' up any monkeyshines."
From Toby Tyler Or, Ten Weeks with a Circus by Otis, James