brass monkey

hard-boiled slang for a burden or handicap, akin to an albatross around one's neck or a mark of shame

"A prison record is a handicap, a brass monkey perched from the back of every man we choose. If the man starts giving us trouble, we simply turn that brass monkey against him. If a man turns from us, we add a full-scale smear campaign to the handicap of his prison record, and the man is ruined for life. Society will accept a man with one brass monkey, like a prison record, but two? Never." "The Brass Monkey," I was a Communist for the FBI, air date 4-9-53

by Crassius June 24, 2021

brass monkey

A metaphorical thermometer. See witch's tit.

"It's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass money!"

by octopod May 29, 2004

brass monkey

A creature whose ass is continually at the upper limit of extreme cold.

It's colder than a brass monkey's ass.

by Bumkicker Slade May 14, 2005

brass monkey

A nightclub located in Narre Warren frequented by teenyboppers and old afghanis. Highest bogan concentration of the south eastern suburbs (melbourne). Adam 12 play there!

hey dazza, gazza, cheryl, lets go yo the monkey to listen to some nickelback and own some wild turkeys!!!

by leonie April 3, 2003

Brass-Monkey

funky monkey, Brass monkey, that funky monkey

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by When_ January 19, 2021

brass monkey

What happens to a man's scrotum during extremely cold weather. A painful form of shrinkage.

I had a severe case of the brass monkey in the locker room after the hockey game.

by bill the cat October 23, 2008

brass monkey weather

Extremely cold weather, used by people of Sunderland and possibly Newcastle (I am not saying the 2 are the same, don't worry) as they are the only type of people who I have heard say it. "Brass monkey weather" is called thus because the temperature is so cold that "it would freeze the bollocks of a brass money".

#1: Boooar, its brass monkey weather!
#2: Ha? What?
#1: It would freeze the bollocks of a brass monkey
#2: Genius.

by who knows but I May 30, 2006