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POWDER MONKEY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does powder monkey mean?
• POWDER MONKEY (noun)
The noun POWDER MONKEY has 1 sense:
1. someone who carries explosives (as from the magazine to the guns on board a warship)
Familiarity information: POWDER MONKEY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who carries explosives (as from the magazine to the guns on board a warship)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("powder monkey" is a kind of...):
assistant; help; helper; supporter (a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose)
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"Better safe than sorry." (Croatian proverb)