full-gorilla
adv.— «He was always the type of pitcher who went full-gorilla all the time.…He was always aggressive and went right after us.» —“Huisman closes book on past” by Michael Murphy Houston Chronicle (Texas) July 4, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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