ape
48
7.9
- noun
- /eɪp/
- Offensive
:
simio (insulto)
- He's an ape like us.
This is this podcast just entertains a few other apes for for a few months.
- This is this podcast just entertains a few other apes for for a few months.
- And to me, you know, I feel a lot more like a an ape than I do a songbird.
- It's like, how can these these apes actually be like just dominating in that.
- You dumb banana eating vine swinging ape.
- There are some considerable number of people who will clip out me saying black people are apes or make a meme, black people are apes.
- And the big problem I had, they, they were, they're very conservative and they take one look at this peculiar white ape and run away.
Examples
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Vincent is still driving like a stripe-assed ape, clutching the phone to his ear.
Fiction book (1994) -
He acts like a real ape when he mocks everyone at school.
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"Do I look like an ape to you?" he said.
Fiction book (1999) -
What ape exactly Curious George is supposed to be?
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As the late "Doctor" King proved -- even an ape can win a prize with good press.
Fiction book (1995) -
And to me, you know, I feel a lot more like a an ape than I do a songbird.
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Until quite recently, I believed myself to be an ape, although I didn't know specifically what type.
Fiction book (2001) -
For the ape's right eye was grey and filled with pain and fear.
Fiction book (1999) -
Taylor, remember, all men look alike to most apes.
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He's got his apes with him.
Synonyms
A person who looks like a monkey or ape
A rude name for a person whose face looks like a monkey's
Compounds
5
3.4
A large animal like a gorilla or orangutan with no tail and closely related to humans
- UK
1
8.9
A monkey without a tail that lives on rocky cliffs and in forests of northwest Africa and Gibraltar
- Specialized
A large tailless animal like a gorilla or chimpanzee that is more like humans than other monkeys
How Apelike
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ape used as an insult comes from comparing a person to the animal ape, and because that compares people to animals it is often seen as offensive or hurtful.