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dust monkey 

n. Originally a trainee in an asbestos mine who cleared the fine carcinogenic fibres off the tram lines but now any lowly employee who is tasked with any unpleasant, dangerous or tedious job.

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1) Get a team of dust monkeys into the kitchen right away. The McFryer is making that funny sound and I think she's going to blow!

2) Where's me new dust monkey? A gale be blowing up astern and the mizzen mast be luffing.
dust monkey by gnostic1 October 12, 2011
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Dust Monkey 

Someone who works on computer. Computers tend to have a lot of dust in them and often need to be blown out because of the collection of said dust.
Johnny is a grease monkey, he works on cars but his sister is a total dust monkey, she works on computers all day. NERD!
Dust Monkey by CarpoolingZombie April 24, 2010

dust monkey 

A man or woman of arab, or middle eastern descent.
Those motherfuckers that just opened that 7-11 are fucking dust monkeys.

Dust Monkey 

A person who smells like dust or is very unattractive
Dust Monkey by Cheeeeeto January 10, 2016

IT Dust Monkey 

An IT manager, IT technician or IT support officer who uses air cans to clear filthy dust out of dirty old PC's, thus contaminating the office air for all non-IT staff to have to inhale.
Kevin the IT Dust Monkey says
"This laptop is over-heating, I think it's because of dust contamination around the CPU and cooling fans. I am going to use my magic air cans to remove the dust."

Nigel says
"That's not healthy". That means you and your colleagues are going to have to inhale filthy dust full of skin cells, dust mites, pet hair, micro-organisms and general filth. Can't you keep a vacuum cleaner close by - at a sufficient distance to prevent causing static but close enough to capture the disturbed dust, do it outdoors or in a well ventilated area?"

Kevin says, in typical IT Dust Monkey style - nothing - and caries on spraying dust all over the office.
IT Dust Monkey by CheekyChappy November 23, 2011

monkey dust 

An animated comedy which makes little sense but still seems one of the most amusing things on telly this decade.
"Monkey Dust- BBC3 - 9:30 - Tuesday (?) Watch it!"
monkey dust by Radclyffe December 1, 2003

monkey dust 

perhaps the funniest programme on british tv currently
monkey dust by bigmeuprudeboy September 11, 2003
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