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."
by Guthlac A February 10, 2010
To have an addicction, especially a drug addiction.
by bluestorm100 March 13, 2005
by Stan, Ricky, Cody, and Alex April 03, 2003
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.
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.
by GG Allin11 September 01, 2013
dealing with a drug problem
by bigronnis December 12, 2016
by XsubZ April 17, 2010
by Light Joker April 01, 2005