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monkey parade

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Synonym of monkey run.

British, dated, slang

Examples

“These twilight parades of young people[…]—unkindly critics, blind to the inner meanings of things, call⟳ them, I believe⟳, Monkeys' Parades—the shop⟳ apprentices, the young work⟳ girls, the boy clerks and so forth, stirred by mysterious intimations, spend⟳ their first-earned money upon collars and ties[…] and come⟳ valiantly into the vague transfiguring mingling of gaslight and evening, to walk⟳ up and down, to eye meaningly, even to accost and make⟳ friends.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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