monkey walk

noun

monkey walk

noun
1

UK, Dated, Slang Synonym of monkey run.

  • In pre-war Britain, for example, younger people had mainly gained introductions to the opposite sex through the ‘evening walk’, with many British cities having well-known routes along which groups of young women and men would walk […]. Known colloquially as ‘monkeyruns’ or ‘monkeywalks’, these provided a relatively informal and regulated space for sexual performance and display […][2013, Phil Hubbard, Cities and Sexualities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 137:

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