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What does ape slang mean?
To ape someone is to imitate them, often in a mocking way. Most people don’t like being aped. To ape is to imitate, but it can mean a few different things. One type of aping is to blatantly imitate something or someone in every way. That’s considered a bad thing because it’s so unoriginal — it’s a rip-off.
Where does the phrase going ape come from?
The OED gives says it’s a variant of “to go ape”, cited from a 1955 edition of American Speech, and both are air force slang. It appears to have originally been US air force (or marine) slang, from at least 1952, applied to troops at a base going a little bit stir-crazy when they can’t leave the barracks.
What do you mean by ponderous?
Definition of ponderous 1 : of very great weight. 2 : unwieldy or clumsy because of weight and size. 3 : oppressively or unpleasantly dull : lifeless ponderous prose.
What does going bananas mean?
Definition of go bananas informal. : to become very excited or angry The crowd went bananas when the concert began.
What is there to do at Go Ape?
Treetop Challenge.
What does sound Curt mean?
If you describe someone as curt, you mean that they speak or reply in a brief and rather rude way. Her tone of voice was curt. Synonyms: terse, short, brief, sharp More Synonyms of curt.
What do you call a person who ponders?
Synonyms broody, cogitative, meditative, melancholy, musing, pensive, reflective, ruminant, ruminative, thoughtful. See also: contemplative (ODO) (formal) 1 thinking quietly and seriously about something.
What does bite the cherry mean?
a bite at/of the ˈcherry (also a second/another bite at/of the ˈcherry) (British English) an opportunity to do something, or a second attempt at doing something, especially something you have failed to do earlier: They all wanted a bite of the cherry.
What does being on the cutting edge mean?
As an adjective ‘cutting edge’ refers to something that is the newest, most advanced of its kind. To be ‘at the cutting edge’ means to be at the forefront, where new developments are taking place. “The research comes from a company at the cutting edge of space science.”
Has anyone died Go Ape?
A mum who plummeted 35 feet from a zip wire at a Go Ape adventure park unclipped her safety gear moments before her death, it is claimed. Tina Werner fell from a ‘treetop’ platform at Lums Pond State Park in Delaware, US, on Wednesday while fulfilling a ‘bucket list’ challenge.
How old do you have to be to go to Go Ape?
Go Ape’s philosophy lies with adventure and encouraging everyone to live life adventurously. We don’t put an upper age limit on our adventures- after all, there is no age limit on having fun.
What does it mean to reply curtly?
: rudely brief in language a curt answer.
What is the meaning of “Go Ape”?
In this way, it has the same meaning as ‘to go bananas.’ In fact, the two may be related. However, another meaning for go ape is to become very excited, very angry, or to lose control nd become violent, sexually aggressive, etc.
What does it mean to go apelike?
To act frenzied with delight, fury, or some other strong emotion. Why such behavior should be described as apelike is not known. The slangy term dates from about 1950 and is used in such contexts as “The audience went ape over the new jazz combo,” or “The school board goes ape over the very mention of budget cuts.”
Where are Go Ape’s new adventure courses?
Go Ape is to open the two new adventure courses at Coed y Brenin Forest, Dolgellau, and Carmarthenshire’s Pembrey Country Park – and the company is expecting the sites to attract 27,000 visitors in their first year.
What is ape-sweat and where did it come from?
One popular substitution was ape-sweat. In the August 1954 issue of Argosy, Frank Harvey wrote an article entitled “They Call It Ape-Sweat,” about pilots serving in the remote Thule Air Base in Greenland, the U.S. military’s northernmost installation.