Slang
Introduced by "Rasher" in 2005 in the southern UK as a slang term for field service engineer's labourers, Used as a term of endearment rather than insult, upon request the "Trunk Monkey" would spring from the van and perform mundane tasks such as dish building or carry tools, the trunk monkey would then return to the van to await further instructions.
Among private military companies, a rear gunner in an SUV is often referred to as a trunk monkey.
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“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
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—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)