English Explanatory Dictionary

monkey model

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A downgraded version of a weapon for export or war-time mass production, which lacks many advanced functions of the original version.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see monkey, model.

Word forms

monkey model monkey models

Etymology

Coined by Soviet and Russian writer Viktor Suvorov in 1982

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