Definitions for APE

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APE ape

Spelling: [eyp]

IPA: /eɪp/

Ape is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in APE (aep).

Definitions for APE

noun

1. any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
2. (loosely) any primate except humans.
3. an imitator; mimic.
4. Informal. a big, ugly, clumsy person.

Idioms

1. go ape, Slang. to become violently emotional:
2. go ape over, Slang. to be extremely enthusiastic about:

verb (used with object)

1. to imitate; mimic:

Origin of APE

before 900; Middle English; Old English apa; cognate with Old Saxon apo, Old Norse api, Old High German affo (German Affe)

Examples for APE

Why, what makes you stand twisting there like an eel or an ape, child?

He self-consciously tries to ape the mannerisms of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.

Then the ape said: “I will not leave until you have obtained one for me.”

Charley confided to me afterwards that he did not take to him—he was too like an ape, he said.

It is our duty to resemble him as much as we can; that is to say, as much as an ape can resemble a man.

But a series of misunderstandings triggers an all-out war between man and ape, threatening the future of mankind.

If only Charlton Heston had been there to shriek something about overthrowing our ape overlords.

Yup, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compared President Obama to an ape.

Ah,” said the ape, “is it so high that it outranks all other dignities?

In his more-than-a-dozen books, he has thoughtfully mined the goings-on of the ape world for insights about the human one.