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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of monkey.

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Examples

  • The standard watch is at the wagon, and must not be "monkeyed" with, a trick sometimes played on tenderfeet.

    Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

  • In a telephone interview, Ebell questioned NASA's climate data for the 1930s, which he said had been "monkeyed with" by scientists aiming to show anthropogenic climate warming.

    Climate Skeptics Unpersuaded Despite Scientific Evidence Joanna Zelman 2011

  • Upside: like many reviewers (especially the pro-Joss ones) he says the second episode — which was originally intended to be the premiere, and which Fox monkeyed with less — is better.

    Dollhouse « Gerry Canavan 2009

  • It might be wise for someone to go through these freebies to make sure that the Righteous haven't monkeyed with the text of Darwin's book.

    Darwin reframed (and defamed?) Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Large numbers of coins have been conserved, dipped, processed and generally monkeyed around with in the past few years.

    Where Have All the Nice Coins Gone? : Coin Collecting News 2009

  • Almost unbearably hip, but very lovely, and they coped remarkably well with a sock-monkeyed toddler in their pristine hipster environment.

    Ce N’est Pas Des Vacances | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • These volumes has been reissued and monkeyed with over the years it seems, and even last year, yet another release of this Omnibus came out.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • So they changed a few costumes, and monkeyed around with specifics in a few origins.

    Rayboy's Review: Ultimate X #1 Chuck Wells 2010

  • But let's recall that it's $20 billion for claimants which is aside from and not to the exclusion of the existing law governing the matter, which caps liability at $75 billion in compensation, which is itself in addition to the entire cost of clean up, and it's very possible that the caps on existing law will get monkeyed with in the coming weeks.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads 2010

  • But let's recall that it's $20 billion for claimants which is aside from and not to the exclusion of the existing law governing the matter, which caps liability at $75 billion in compensation, which is itself in addition to the entire cost of clean up, and it's very possible that the caps on existing law will get monkeyed with in the coming weeks.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads 2010

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