A primate of the superfamily Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
Of vvhat texte thou proveſt hell / vvill a nother prove purgatory / a nother lymbo patrum / and a nother the aſſumpcion of oure ladi: And a nother ſhall prove of the ſame texte that an Ape hath a tayle.
Any such primate other than a human.
Initialism of alkylphenol ethoxylate.
The most important and commonly used APEs are nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs), which account for 80% of the APE market.
To behave like an ape.
To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.
Wild; crazy.
We were ape over the new look.
From Middle English ape, from Old English apa (“ape, monkey”), from Proto-West Germanic *apō, from Proto-Germanic *apô (“monkey, ape”), possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”), comp...
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And well their dignity it ſuits, / To ape the gravity of brutes.