monkey

monkey
   1. (the) American
   addiction to illegal narcotics
   Probably from having a monkey on your back which you cannot shake off:
    You think it's the monkey that's killing you. (Macdonald, 1971, writing of a heroin addict, not a zoo-keeper)
   2. obsolete British
   a mortgage
   Again something which it is hard to get free from:
    Oh yes, there's a monkey sitting on his chimney. (EDDhe had an onerous mortgage)

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