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means A sticky, pull-apart bread made of balls of dough coated in sugar and cinnamon, baked in a heap in a bundt pan so diners tear off pieces by hand instead of slicing it.

from The name's origin is genuinely murky — no one has nailed down a definitive source. The leading theory is simply that eating it mimics a monkey's way of grabbing food: fingers pulling apart sticky gobs rather than fork and knife. Some trace the dish itself to mid-20th-century American home kitchens and community cookbooks, where the 'monkey bread' name was already attached before it spread via Hollywood-adjacent celebrity endorsements in the 1970s-80s, which boosted its fame but didn't invent the name. The 'monkey' may also nod to 'monkey business' — a playful, messy affair — though that's a reasonable guess rather than documented fact.