what is brass monkey?

Answer 1

There are people who will tell you it is a Rum cocktail but those people don't know it really is a 40 of malt liquor and some OJ.

Answer 2

This is one definition of Brass Monkey: The English expression is 'It's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'

Every sailing ship had to have cannon for protection. Cannon of the times required round iron cannonballs. The master wanted to store the cannonballs such that they could be of instant use when needed, yet not roll around the gun deck. The solution was to stack them up in a square-based pyramid next to the cannon. The top level of the stack had one ball, the next level down had four, the next had nine, the next had sixteen, and so on. Four levels would provide a stack of 30 cannonballs. The only real problem was how to keep the bottom level from sliding out from under the weight of the higher levels. To do this, they devised a small brass plate ("brass monkey") with one rounded indentation for each cannonball in the bottom layer. Brass was used because the cannonballs wouldn't rust to the "brass monkey", but would rust to an iron one.

When temperature falls, brass contracts in size faster than iron. As it got cold on the gun decks, the indentations in the brass monkey would get smaller than the iron cannonballs they were holding. If the temperature got cold enough, the bottom layer would pop out of the indentations spilling the entire pyramid over the deck. Thus it was, quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.

Brass Monkey is a British brand of men's underpants that have taken up the fight to keep men's testicles warm and comfy,

See the link below and their version of the story!

Answer 3

I'm watching Mike & Julie and a lady on there just referred to a type of alcohol called Brass Monkey.

Answer 4

As in "brass monkey weather" ?

It's an old - and a little bit rude - term for really cold weather - weather that is "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey."

EDIT - to weatherm... that's a myth, sorry - the shot on ships was kept in wooden racks, called "shot garlands". The only nautical use I know of for "Brass monkey" is a slang name for the house flag of the Cunard Line - it's actually a golden lion, rampant, but is called by Cunarders "The brass monkey flag"

Richard

Answer 5

"Mike D" and "Mix Master Mike" (the DJ) shared an apartment in college, and when either of them brought a girl home they would turn the brass monkey statue so that its back was turned in the front window, meaning Don't Come In!

Answer 6

A song by the Beastie Boys.."Brass monkey...that funky monkey"

Answer 7

The standard for coldness, as in "cold enough to freeze the [testicles] off a brass monkey!"

Answer 8

A brass monkey was a stand used for cannon balls on ships centuries ago.

In cold weather the cannon balls would shrink & fall off it ........... hence "brass monkey weather" & "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"

Answer 9

same as old brass ring used to be with merry go rounds/carousels
to grab the brass monkey/ring is good fortune

Answer 10

a monkey made of brass

Answer 11

Most likely its the alcoholic drink. Orange juice, vodka, and rum.

Its also a movie, a song, a band, and a few literary characters.