monkey-wrench
- n adjustable wrench that has one fixed and one adjustable jaw
- Maggie claims that she is not out to monkey-wrench any other candidate.
- It was put up in 1904 by Manhattan's Columbia Yacht Club, to give the "monkey-wrench sailors" something to race for.
- This apparent step toward throwing a monkey-wrench into the Company's machinery should provoke a lively tilt in the Courts when the question of a permanent receivership is taken .