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Monkey is a nickname of sorts for a face card. They player will yell monkey, hoping their second card will be a face card.

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"Monkey" is a corruption of the word monarchy by Asian gamblers in the early 20th century in Asia. Thus monarchy - monkey means Jack, Queen, King (the royal monarchy).

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