monkey on your back

To have some very burdensome nuisance you have to put up with--in a sense wider than just a drug or other addiction.

"That huge credit card payment is a real monkey on his back." "Trying to sell that white elephant must be a monkey on your back."

monkey on your back by Guthlac A February 10, 2010

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Monkey on your back

To have an addicction, especially a drug addiction.

Man, he's got a monkey on him back! He's so wasted!

Monkey on your back by bluestorm100 March 12, 2005

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monkey on your back

To have a deep, uncontrollable desire to something such as Gamble, Smoke, or Drink.

Man he has that Drinking monkey on his back, it is 9:30 in the morrning and he's already drunk.

monkey on your back by Stan, Ricky, Cody, and Alex April 3, 2003

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Monkey on your back

Addiction, mostly heroin/morphine addiction.

Hey dad, you been smacking da H again, quit it bitch, you have a monkey on your back

But the morphine eased the pain,
And the grass grew round his brain,
And gave him all the confidence he lacked,
With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back.

There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,

-John Prine - 'Sam Stone' a song about a vietnam vet returning to the US with a monkey on his back.

Monkey on your back by GG Allin11 September 1, 2013

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Monkey on your back

Severe relentless back pain one gets during opiate withdrawal.

hardest part of detox will be the monkey on your back

Monkey on your back by XsubZ April 17, 2010

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funiosity

The art of being peculiar, but in an amusing fashion.

"Wow, look at that dog running on three legs"
- "Yeah, that sure is a funiosity"

funiosity by Supersonic Stevie November 23, 2007

Word of the Day on July 25, 2026

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Toe Rag

A toe rag was originally a foot wrapping used, since mediaeval times up until the mid-nineteenth century, to protect the foot from chafing by boots or shoes. As these were, quite literally, rags they weren’t usually washed, and so with use they became very smelly until they were thrown away. Because of the similarity in smell, toe rag also became the name applied to dried, salted cod or other things with a strong, unpleasant, fishy smell. It didn’t take that long before the name was applied to someone who was an obnoxious, unpleasant OIC.

1 “Socks! Those aren’t socks you smelly git, they’re toe rags!”
2 “What have you been cooking? Smells like toe rag!”
3 “I can smell ‘er fanny from ‘ere, proper toe rag.”
4 That Heale Malcolm is a right toe rag.

Toe Rag by AKACroatalin November 29, 2016

Word of the Day on July 24, 2026

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