Myth Debunked – “Monkey!”

You may have heard it in a casino at a blackjack table.
MONKEY! MONKEY! MONKEY!
Generally it's a method of calling for a "10" of some kind when someone is doubling down on a hand, or is showing a single ace.

If that's not the case, the player's an idiot, in which case, you should walk away from the table before that player messes up the shoe, and takes down the table.

*ahem*
Getting back to the subject at hand, most people really don't know where the term came from, only that it's popular, and like all lemmings, one will following the next, while they all jump off a cliff to join the rest.

This term follows along that same path, after which, you may not want to use it again.

The word orang is the Malaysian/Indonesian word for "person", which is the root for the word orangutan (yes, the primate). Orang, in many Chinese dialects, primarily Mandarin and Taiwanese, is a derogatory word for a black person (you can equate it to the n-word).

Those that frequent casinos will understand wh