monkey around
verb- I wanna be a man, mancub / And stroll right into town / And be just like the other men / I'm tired of monkeyin' around!1967, Robert Bernard Sherman, Richard Morton Sherman, “I Wan’na Be like You (The Monkey Song)”, in The Jungle Book, performed by Louis Prima and Phil Harris:
- Related terms
- barrel of monkeys, monkeyshine, monkey up