King Kong

Cultural  

1. One of the most famous of movie monsters, a giant ape who terrorizes New York City and makes his last stand atop the Empire State Building. The story of King Kong was first filmed in the 1930s.

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Example Sentences

How many family cats ended up atop the Empire State Building re-enacting the final scenes of “King Kong”? Not to mention the cavalcade of copycats soon unleashed, including a Chinese app that a few weeks ago circulated a convincing Epstein-themed fistfight between Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise on a gritty urban rooftop.

From The Wall Street Journal

Some films cast the King of the Monsters as a protector unconsciously joining humanity – and occasionally, King Kong – to fend off some mammoth existential evil.

From Salon

They were right there in the Woodrow Wilson School, all six of them spread out, one to a class, because the only teacher who could put up with two of them at once would have to be a Miss King Kong.

From Literature

Slowly, Stein turned the studio tour into a theme park, with attractions built around movies and TV shows like “Star Trek” and “The Incredible Hulk,” a long-running live show based on “Conan the Barbarian” and a face-to-face encounter with King Kong that brought customers close enough to smell the banana on the ape’s breath.

From The Wall Street Journal

“You’d have to be King Kong to break this.”

From The Wall Street Journal