"Gorilla" (insult)
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The term "gorilla" was an epithet or insult, indicating a person — usually male — who was ugly or brutish. Rose Tyler described Darren Pye as looking like a shaved gorilla, "only not as handsome." (PROSE: Winner Takes All)
In Charnage Hospital in 1917, Ace comtempuously referred to the soldiers under Lance-Corporal Burridge's command as his "trained gorillas". (AUDIO: No Man's Land)
In Monte Carlo in 1966, Peri Brown compared Gavin Walker's security guards to gorillas. This confused Erimem, who believed that she was talking about the animal. (AUDIO: The Veiled Leopard)
