monkey hanger
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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.
Noun[edit]
monkey hanger (plural monkey hangers)
- (Teesside, Northumbria, offensive) A person from Hartlepool.