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If you can have a monkey on your back, why not this too? Google returns lots of deliberate wordplay, but some apparently innocent uses as well:

You really have to have a chimp on your shoulder to make that cartoon into a racial slur.
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The south is allowed to have a chimp on their shoulder because the north invaded the south. The left the union, legally …
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Landon is an undersized player who walks around with a chimp on his shoulder. You know else does? Sean Avery, Dustin Pedroia, Wes Welker, ...
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... just just…you know what i’m saying, you know he always, you know he feels like he has a point to prove he walk around with a chimp on his shoulder …
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I know very little about you, but it appears that you, sir, are the one with a chimp on your shoulder.
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