monkey

He had been visiting an area zoo when a monkey swung from its tree perch, swiped his glasses and hurled them into a hippo hole.

Chimpanzees are known to form bands to hunt and kill other monkeys.

Stop misbehaving, you little monkey!

A thousandth of a million squid or two monkeys / Or a whole fifty scores

Monkey: a habit, as in "I have a monkey on my back." Usually used when one is sick from lack of drugs.

I was out rather late one night, when the foreman of my department, who owed me a grudge, abused me like a dog, and told me I might consider myself dismissed, and that I should be paid my wages in the morning. I don't know how I kept my hands off him, for my monkey was up; […]

Someone handed me a monkey of grog. I forced myself to sip it, not down it.