Usually means: Assistant for explosives on ships.
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  1. powder monkey: Merriam-Webster
  2. powder monkey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. powder monkey: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. powder monkey: Collins English Dictionary
  5. powder monkey: Vocabulary.com
  6. powder-monkey, powder monkey: Wordnik
  7. powder monkey: Wiktionary
  8. powder monkey: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Powder monkey, powder monkey: Dictionary.com
  10. Powder monkey (disambiguation), Powder monkey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. powder monkey: Rhymezone
  12. powder monkey: FreeDictionary.org
  13. powder monkey: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. powder monkey: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. powder monkey: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See powder_monkeys as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (powder monkey)

noun:  (informal) An explosives expert; a person who sets explosives.
noun:  (nautical) The persons employed to carry gun powder from the ship's magazine to the gun deck during a battle; in the 18th century Royal British and U. S. Navies, this task (also carrying water) during battles became a permanent nickname for the ship's cabin boys and apprentice seamen.
noun:  (skiing, snowboarding, informal) A skier or snowboarder who avidly seeks out the “powder” (light, dry, fluffy snow).

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