Definitions for apes

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apes ape

Spelling: [eyp]

IPA: /eɪp/

Apes is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in apes (aeps).

Definitions for apes

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 apes

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

Examples for apes

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.

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

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.

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.”

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

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

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

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