King Kong

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.

Example Sentences

I don’t even know how that all happened, but putting it on the cover of my book was just, like, this audacious and ridiculous thing, having me on the top like I’m a skyscraper where King Kong swatted down people.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s rare that a newcomer joins the ranks of the famous monsters of Filmland — Frankenstein’s creature, Dracula, the Wolfman, King Kong, Godzilla, that lot — but the H.R.

From Los Angeles Times

McMahon quickly put the championship on Hogan, who came into the ring to the song “Real American,” tore off his T-shirt, told his fans to “train, say your prayers and take your vitamins,” and vowed to defeat the heel of the month because “Whatcha gonna do, King Kong Bundy or Paul Orndorff or Kamala or Roddy Piper, when Hulk Hogan and Hulkamania run wild on you.”

From Los Angeles Times

The official White House account rode the virality to post a meme casting Donald Trump as some version of a mighty King Kong who deported “142,000+ illegal alien criminals.”

From Salon

He would architect a 30-foot animatronic King Kong that once stood at Universal Studios Hollywood, work with Steven Spielberg on the dinosaur figures for “Jurassic Park,” construct a constantly sinking ship at Las Vegas’ Treasure Island and build a flying UFO for the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics.

From Los Angeles Times