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Where did the term grease monkey come from?

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Where did the term grease monkey come from?

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The word “grease monkey” comes from the person (usually a young boy) that would crawl up in the rafters to grease all of the pulleys and belts that ran all of the equipment in a blacksmith shop or machine shop.

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