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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The killing of a monkey. uncountable

   "I do not think I could commit Monkeycide myself. They look, as lady Macbeth says, so like our Fathers."

Example

More examples

"I do not think I could commit Monkeycide myself. They look, as lady Macbeth says, so like our Fathers."

Etymology

From monkey + -cide.

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