Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US black/Und.) to use violence, to intimidate; to rape.

1950		Goldin et al. DAUL 87/2: Gueril (or Gorill). To coerce; to bulldoze; intimidate.
1969		‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp 233: Maybe ‘Poison’ will come back and gorilla me.
1975		E. Torres Carlito’s Way 11: I’d travel for blocks to duke with a cat that would try to gorilla a friend.
1981		H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 55: So he spun him too hard, and Morgan almost fell over. ‘Don’t gorilla me, Murphy,’ he said.
1991		E.W. Emerson Help Wanted: Orphans Preferred 47: Plywood sheets were nailed across the fire escape where the original doors had been gorillaed off their hinges.
1998		Big L ‘Ebonics’ 🎵 To guerrilla mean to use physical force.