monkey board n.— «The following is a sampling of terms from Tampa Electric’s slang dictionary.… Monkey board—A non-insulated aerial platform.» —“Keep tools, tasks straight: Learn the lingo” Electrical World May...
monkey board n.— «The eager, quick-eyed, ragged-headed sprite, who, with the agility of a monkey or a London sparrow, skips about stand-still omnibuses, this side, that side, and hopping on and off the step behind, ever in danger of a...
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n.— «The step of a bus on which the conductor stands is known as the monkey-board.» —“Words Made By Animals” Wellsboro Gazette (Penn.) Jan. 27, 1921. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
monkey board n.— «The men were injured when a finger came out of a monkey board knocking both men down and falling across them.» —“Two Men Injured In Oil Field Accident” in Raymondville Valley Morning...
monkey board n.— «I had seen C.T. throw poultry off the windmill before, and although this practice was forbidden by his stern father, C.T. counted it a considerable thrill. Sometimes he caught white leghorn pullets and pitched them off...
monkey board n.— «Everything was icy and visibility was restricted to the bottom of the derrick—far below the monkey board, the little platform where I was to work.» —“The Tyranny of the Should” by Karl Laiho in...