单词 | monkeywrenching |
释义 | monkeywrenchingn. Chiefly North American. The sabotage of industrial sites, equipment, etc., as a form of environmentalist protest. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > action > secretly mining1645 undermining1904 sabotage1910 sabotaging1923 white-anting1930 monkeywrenching1983 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > sabotage Morganization1902 sabotage1910 sabotaging1923 monkeywrenching1983 society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > ecologically motivated ecotage1971 eco-terrorism1980 monkeywrenching1983 eco-defence1985 eco-sabotage1985 1983 Los Angeles Times 20 May b11/1 Such acts are now called ‘eco-tage’ or ‘monkey-wrenching’. ‘We don't plan any monkey-wrenching here today,’ said David Foreman, one of the organizers of the demonstration. 1985 Chicago Tribune 20 Aug. i. 1/2 By night..they range about the countryside engaging in ‘monkey-wrenching’—sabotaging oil rigs, logging sites, road-building machinery, ranch fences and other efforts to develop natural resources in the West. 1992 Tucson (Arizona) Weekly 15 Apr. 5/4 Millett was one of two of the five Earth First! defendants who received jail sentences for monkeywrenching. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1983 |
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