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ape
[ eyp ]
noun
- Anthropology, Zoology. any member of the superfamily Hominoidea, the two extant branches of which are the lesser apes (gibbons) and the great apes (humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans). catarrhine.
- (loosely) any primate except humans.
- an imitator; mimic.
- Informal. a big, ugly, clumsy person.
- Disparaging and Offensive. (used as a slur against a member of a racial or ethnic minority group, especially a Black person.)
adjective
- Slang. (usually in the phrase go ape )
- violently emotional:
When she threatened to leave him, he went ape.
- extremely enthusiastic (often followed by over or for ):
They go ape over old rock music.
We were all ape for the new movie trailer.
ape
/ eɪp /
noun
- any of various primates, esp those of the family Pongidae , in which the tail is very short or absent See anthropoid ape See also great ape
- not in technical use any monkey
- an imitator; mimic
- informal.a coarse, clumsy, or rude person
verb
- tr to imitate
Sensitive Note
Derived Forms
- ˈapeˌlike, adjective
Other Words From
- ape·like adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of ape1
Word History and Origins
Origin of ape1
Example Sentences
His play The Hairy Ape, the agent noted, “could easily lend itself to radical propaganda.”
It was just another crazy Twitter account, with one exception: this ugly ape represented me, without my permission.
They found that 60 percent of plantations overlapped with great ape habitat across the entire area.
But a series of misunderstandings triggers an all-out war between man and ape, threatening the future of mankind.
Yup, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compared President Obama to an ape.
Widder Morse wants to ape these well-to-do folks that live tother end o Whiffle Street.
In the cave of Naulette, near Dinant, Belgium, has been found the lower jaw of a man of decidedly ape-like aspect.
The lower jaws in both were heavy, while the woman was almost destitute of a chin—a marked ape-like characteristic.
This disposition the man-ape lost as its foot fitted itself to the surface of the ground.
It is quite within the limits of probability, for instance, that the man-ape at an early date became omnivorous in its diet.
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