Definder - what does the word mean?

What is monkey on your back?

to silence one's either personal or media critics

if you are going to survive in the entertainment business you'd have to learn how to get the monkey off your back.

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monkey on your back - video


Monkey on your back - what is it?

to silence one's either personal or media critics

if you are going to survive in the entertainment business you'd have to learn how to get the monkey off your back.

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What does "monkey on your back" mean?

To silence one's personal or media critics

If you are going to survive in the modern media or entertainment world, you better learn how to get the monkey off your back.

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Monkey on your back - what does it mean?

To silence one's personal or media critics

If you are going to survive in the modern media or entertainment world, you better learn how to get the monkey off your back.

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Monkey on your back - meaning

to have either fellatio or intercourse removing feelings of sexual tension

Geeze it feels good to get the spadge monkey off my back.

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Monkey on your back - definition

Severe relentless back pain one gets during opiate withdrawal.

hardest part of detox will be the monkey on your back

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Monkey on your back - slang

Addiction, mostly heroin/morphine addiction.

Hey dad, you been smacking da H again, quit it bitch, you have a monkey on your back

But the morphine eased the pain,
And the grass grew round his brain,
And gave him all the confidence he lacked,
With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back.

There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,

-John Prine - 'Sam Stone' a song about a vietnam vet returning to the US with a monkey on his back.

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Monkey on your back

To have an addicction, especially a drug addiction.

Man, he's got a monkey on him back! He's so wasted!

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Monkey on your back

To have a deep, uncontrollable desire to something such as Gamble, Smoke, or Drink.

Man he has that Drinking monkey on his back, it is 9:30 in the morrning and he's already drunk.

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Monkey on your back

To have some very burdensome nuisance you have to put up with--in a sense wider than just a drug or other addiction.

"That huge credit card payment is a real monkey on his back." "Trying to sell that white elephant must be a monkey on your back."

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