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monkey hanger

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Etymology

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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

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monkey hanger (plural monkey hangers)

  1. (Teesside, Northumbria, offensive) A person from Hartlepool.