Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A wrench or spanner which has one fixed and one adjustable jaw.
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- noun Alternative form of
monkey wrench .
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Examples
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"Visitors will be attacked by a football player with a monkeywrench."
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At any rate, the usage of Cameron's work certainly does put a monkeywrench into religious rights claims that they are being "targeted" by the SPLC because of their "Judeo-Christian" beliefs.
Alvin McEwen: Religious Right Leader Admits to Using Bad Research Against the Gay Community Alvin McEwen 2010
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I was just throwing a monkeywrench in--which is what us non-finishers tend to do...which is probably why we don't get done! dk on March 08, 2009
15+ Edifying Links 2009
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Just as it's good that Byrd won't be able to throw a monkeywrench into health care reform the way he did with Hillary Clinton's plans.
In Big Win For Liberals, Waxman Ousts Dingell As Energy And Commerce Chair 2009
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I don't mean to throw a monkeywrench into any of this but I think the real meat of the item - oh dear, i hope i have not facts pawed - the real meat of the item was that whats'ername was reading aloud from one of her own books.
Harry Potter Update Bill Crider 2007
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Ever think some of the Hilary 'operatives' are reallky repubs trying to monkeywrench the party?
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So, that's lots of planning over a long period of time, all of the sudden, the big monkeywrench in that.
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Ever think some of the Hilary 'operatives' are reallky repubs trying to monkeywrench the party?
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary Campaign: No, We Won The Nevada Caucuses 2009
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A poster on AlterNet named monkeywrench observed that Obama couldn't have handed the corporate owners of this country more if he had been a
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Gingrich is the only one who could possibly throw a monkeywrench into the GOP primaries if he runs.
Romney Aggressively Courting Bush's "Pioneer" And "Ranger" Fundraisers 2009
Hayduke commented on the word monkeywrench
monkeywrench: verb: to destroy property to bring attention to illegal or immoral practices.
Made popular in Edward Abbey's "The Monkey Wrench Gang"
June 19, 2009
Hayduke commented on the word monkeywrench
Monkeywrench as a verb was first used by Edward Abbey in "The Monkey Wrench Gang," a novel of environmental protest against illegal corporate destruction. It derives from the act of "thrusting a monkeywrench into the bowels of the machine," compared to the sabot in "sabotage." Monkeywrenching has become the banner of the radical environmental movement.
June 19, 2009