statutory ape

Term used to characterize an oppressive majority, set of standards, or other oppressive mainstream institution.

The term was coined by writers Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea in 1975 through the persona of Markoff Chaney, a midget struggling to understand and destroy society's oppressive managerial hierarchy in one of the books of the duo's "Illuminatus! Trilogy."

The relevant passage of the term's context is as follows:

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The Midget, whose name was Markoff Chaney, was no relative of the famous Chaneys of Hollywood, but people did keep making jokes about that. It was bad enough to be, by the standards of the gigantic and stupid majority, a freak; how much worse to be so named as to remind these big oversized clods of the cinema's two most famous portrayers of monstro-freaks; by the time the Midget was fifteen, he had built up a detestation for ordinary mankind that dwarfed (he hated that word) the relative misanthropies of Paul of Tarsus, Clement of Alexandria, Swift of Dublin and even Robert Putney Drake. Revenge, for sure, he would have. He would have revenge...

Damn the science of mathematics itself, the line, the square, the average, the whole measurable world that pronounced him a bizarre random factor. Once and for all, beyond fantasy, in the depth of his soul he declared war on the "statutory ape," on law and order, on predictability, on negative entropy. He would be a random factor in every equation; from this day forward, unto death, it would be civil war: the Midget versus the Digits....
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(n.) "For well over a year, those black kids fought the statutory ape, but to no avail--they ended up getting convicted for crimes they didn't commit."

(adv.) "I got rejected by the NBA again. Apparently geriatrics are automatically disqualified. It's statutory ape, I tell you."

statutory ape by Siegfried Zaga May 24, 2005

Statutory ape

What a pedophile might say when referring to assaulting a hairy minor.

-"I like em' young and hairy call that Statutory ape."
-"The only thing I'm calling is the fucking cops!"

Statutory ape by Crackhead Professor January 20, 2022

statutory apeshit 

statutory ape + apeshit

1) A primal rage induced by the insanity of bureaucratic procedures, social-political injustice, or "legalized" oppression.

2) A collapse of an institution to total anarchy; A failure to bring/maintain any control or order.

1) After spending all week at the licensing offices just to get a permit to apply for a license to grant permission to let my son cut my lawn, I'm ready to go statutory apeshit!

2) When they lost the procedural manuals, the company went statutory apeshit and then went out of business.

statutory apeshit by Man-Machine June 25, 2008

statuatory ape 

he'll kill. end of story.

hey dawg, that shit is totally 100% alabama statuatory ape!

dude, i got that statuatory ape all over my taco.

statuatory ape by bucnasty. April 29, 2010