English Explanatory Dictionary

Hartlepool monkey

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A monkey, the only survivor of a French ship that foundered near Hartlepool during the Napoleonic Wars, that was supposedly tried and hanged as a spy.

Word forms

Hartlepool monkey the Hartlepool monkey
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