monkey humping a football
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
- (vulgar) Energetic but useless action, or a person engaged in such action.
- The whole exercise was a monkey humping a football.
- (vulgar) A manner of riding a horse, motorcycle or other vehicle, in which the rider crouches forward and may bounce in the saddle.
- This poseur was riding like a monkey humping a football, but I blew past him.
Usage notes[edit]
The phrase is generally but not exclusively used in simile, e.g., I'm busier than a monkey humping a football or You look like a monkey humping a football. The riding position may also be used attributively, usually with a hyphen: I switched to a monkey-humping-a-football position. The plural form has somewhat different usage. In particular, it lacks the riding sense.
Related terms[edit]
- football
- hump (transitive verb)
- monkey
- monkeys humping a football