monkey wrench

1. 1.

   adjustable wrench that has one fixed and one adjustable jaw

   Synonymsmonkey-wrench

   Broaderadjustable wrench

Questions about monkey wrench

What does monkey wrench mean?

monkey wrench means "adjustable wrench that has one fixed and one adjustable jaw".

What is another word for monkey wrench?

Close synonyms include monkey-wrench. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is monkey wrench a common word?

monkey wrench is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.