bleed the monkey

English

Verb

bleed the monkey

  1. (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.

References
  • 1950, Wilfred Granville, Sea Slang of the Twentieth Century
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