powder monkey

1. 1.

   someone who carries explosives (as from the magazine to the guns on board a warship)

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Questions about powder monkey

What does powder monkey mean?

powder monkey means "someone who carries explosives (as from the magazine to the guns on board a warship)".

Is powder monkey a common word?

powder monkey 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.