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monkey hanger

noun

Etymology

Citizens of Hartlepool are alleged to have thought that a monkey which washed up onto the beach by the town during the Napoleonic wars was a French spy, and to have hanged it accordingly.

  1. derived from spy

Definitions

  1. A person from Hartlepool.

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