monkey-house

noun — 3 senses

monkey-house

noun
1

An enclosure in which monkeys are kept.

  • "The fellow is as full of tricks as the monkey-house at the Zoo."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
2

A frenetically chaotic place, often said of a place where politicians gather.

3

US, Dated A brothel.

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