Definition of "monkeyshine" []

• Slang A mischievous or playful trick; a prank. Often used in the plural: laughed at my daughter's monkeyshines. (noun)

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• "When the banks get a whiff of money to be made, or that you are going to give them the old monkeyshine ... whoosh!"
• "The adjectives "elfin" and "colossal" seldom keep company together, but this instance marks a grand exception; it is a monkeyshine of unprecedented scale."
• ""I did cut a monkeyshine or two," admitted the young man."