1.HBAa very large Africanmonkey that is the largest of the apes 大猩猩
2.a man who is very large and who looks as if he might become violent 凶悍的彪形大汉
Examples from the Corpus
gorilla• Like ya bindressed by a gorilla inna dark.• In chimpanzees and gorillas, the total is less than a standardsheet of typing paper.• Pause here for gorillajoke: A man is walking down Oxford Street with a gorilla on each arm.• Starkly primeval, it resembles the head of a giantgorilla!• One of Jewontin's examples concerns the brain-size of gorillas and chimpanzees.• The first motion picture from Jim Henson Pictures centers on a cute little simian child who becomes an 800-poundgorilla.• As semi-podunk semi-newspapers go, WickCommunications is something of a 900-pound gorilla.
Origingorilla
(1800-1900)GreekGorillai, name of an African tribe of hairy women in old stories