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ape
ape is a 3-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 9 senses
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- 1noun
A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.
- 2noun
One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.
- 3noun
A dupe.
- 4transitive verb
To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.
- 5noun
any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
- 6noun
person who resembles a nonhuman primate
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- 7noun
someone who copies the words or behavior of another
- 8verb
represent in or produce a caricature of
"The drawing caricatured the President"
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- 9verb
imitate uncritically and in every aspect
"Her little brother apes her behavior"
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