bleed the monkey
English
Verb
bleed the monkey
- (naval slang) Synonym of suck the monkey (“to surreptitiously drink alcohol from a cask through an inserted tube”)
- 1969, Lookout: Annual report issue (volumes 60-62)
- He invented the 'monkey fist' — a knot which gives weight to a heaving line; the union plate he called a 'monkey face' and, in times of merrymaking, he frequently 'bled the monkey' to get his grog.
- 1969, Lookout: Annual report issue (volumes 60-62)
References
- 1950, Wilfred Granville, Sea Slang of the Twentieth Century