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Jungle

//ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l// adj, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle. not-comparable, usually

    "She gave her first performance at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles, offering festival dances, Moro tribal rituals, primitive jungle rhythms and rice harvest ceremonials."

Noun
  1. 1
    A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest. countable, uncountable

    "As Tarzan walked down the wild cañon beneath the brilliant African moon the call of the jungle was strong upon him. The solitude and the savage freedom filled his heart with life and buoyancy. Again he was Tarzan of the Apes—every sense alert against the chance of surprise by some jungle enemy—yet treading lightly and with head erect, in proud consciousness of his might."

  2. 2
    an impenetrable equatorial forest wordnet
  3. 3
    Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat. South-Asia, countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    a place where hoboes camp wordnet
  5. 5
    A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality. colloquial, countable, uncountable

    "It’s a jungle out there."

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  1. 6
    a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival wordnet
  2. 7
    A tangled mess. countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "[…] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]"

  3. 8
    An area where hobos camp together. countable, slang, uncountable
  4. 9
    A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass. uncountable

    "Always more multiracial than other post-Rave scenes, Hardcore got “blacker” as hiphop, Ragga, dub and Soul influences kicked in, and by 93 it had evolved into Jungle. By this point, Hardcore/Jungle (the terms remain interchangeable) was universally scorned by dance hipsters and banished from the media."

  5. 10
    Dense rough. countable, slang, uncountable

    "Hitting from the Jungle. The rough at some courses is just weeds and sparse grass, as often as not giving a player a decent lie to shoot from. But grass above four inches is nasty. It will grab your club and alter your shots."

  6. 11
    A dense mass of pubic hair. countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindustani جَن٘گَل (jaṅgal) / जंगल (jaṅgal), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”). First appears c. 1776 in a translation by Nathaniel Halhed.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hindustani جَن٘گَل (jaṅgal) / जंगल (jaṅgal), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”). First appears c. 1776 in a translation by Nathaniel Halhed.

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