| 单词 | monkey chaser |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmonkey chaser monkey chaser n. (a) U.S. slang (offensive), a black person from the Caribbean or other tropical region; (b) colloquial a drink of sweetened gin (see quot. 1952). ΚΠ 1925 Atlantic Feb. 182/1 I'll be john-browned if there's a monkey-chaser in Harlem can gyp him. 1952 New Yorker 30 Aug. 15/3 Monkey chasers are gin and ice, with a little sugar and a trace of water. That term ‘monkey chaser’ comes from Georgia. 1961 J. Carew Last Barbarian 32 Take the guys who settles in Harlem, they comes with nothing but their monkey-chaser's suits to call their own. 1988 G. Naylor Mama Day 100 If you still thought of Jamaicans, Trinidadians, or Antiguans as ‘monkey chasers’, you never said it aloud again. < as lemmas |
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