Meaning of bleed the monkey | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of suck the monkey (“to surreptitiously drink alcohol from a cask through an inserted tube”).

slang

Examples

“He invented the 'monkey fist' — a knot which gives weight to a heaving line; the union plate he called a 'monkey face' and, in times of merrymaking, he frequently 'bled the monkey' to get his grog.”

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