What is Monkey On Your Back?
1.
To have an addicction, especially a drug addiction.
Man, he's got a monkey on him back! He's so wasted!
2.
To have a deep, uncontrollable desire to something such as Gamble, Smoke, or Drink.
Man he has that Drinking monkey on his back, it is 9:30 in the morrning and he's already drunk.
