Definitions for gorilla

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gorilla go·ril·la

Spelling: [guh-ril-uh]

IPA: /gəˈrɪl ə/

Gorilla is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 137 anagrams from letters in gorilla (agillor).

Definitions for gorilla

noun

1. the largest of the anthropoid apes, Gorilla gorilla, terrestrial and vegetarian, of western equatorial Africa and the Kivu highlands, comprising the subspecies G. g. gorilla (western lowland gorilla) G. g. graueri (eastern lowland gorilla) and G. g. beringei (mountain gorilla) now rare.
2. an ugly, brutish person.
3. Slang. a hoodlum or thug, especially one who threatens or inflicts violence.

Origin of gorilla

1790-1800; New Latin Greek Goríllās (accusative plural) name for the females of a hairy tribe encountered in Hanno's account of his voyage along the coast of Africa (5th century b.c.)

Examples for gorilla

In one mortuary, she observes the very hairy body of a dead fascist, “the nearest human thing I have ever seen to a gorilla.”

"Don't waste no time on that cast-iron mug of his," says gorilla.

Then twelve guys come out and beat the gorilla over the head.

Sitting up there at that little spindly-legged organ, he looked enormous, bigger than life, like a gorilla at a harpsichord.

By around 2005, Rick Ross, Joell Ortiz, and gorilla Zoe were some of the only ones left.

They're a lot more like a man than a man is like, for instance, a gorilla.

Kerr was adamant that the gorilla tie was not a statement about evolution, but “about life.”

Chipmunk with the strength of a gorilla and the courage of a lion.

Mouthing his rage, the gorilla flung the earth man to the ground.

His arms and chest were built on the same general plan as those of a gorilla.