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Noun
monkey parade (plural monkey parades)
- (British, dated slang) Synonym of monkey run
1911, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 3, in The New Machiavelli, London: John Lane; The Bodley Head , →OCLC, book the first (The Making of a Man), page 66: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.
1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company, page 76:[…] On Clapham Common, the monkeys' parade is South Side; and the game is started by strolling from “The Plough” to Nightingale Lane. As the boys pass the likely girls they glance, and, if not rebuffed, offer wide smiles.
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