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asphalt jungles

asphalt jungles is the plural of asphalt jungle.

Meaning of asphalt jungle

Noun

asphalt jungle (plural asphalt jungles)

  1. (idiomatic) A city or urban area, where the landscape is covered by pavement and the environment is alienating and unsafe.
    • The sound track tingles with cool jazz, the dry atonal music of the asphalt jungle.1962 July 27, “Manhattan's Lower Depths”, in Time (film review of Strangers in the City), archived from the original on 07 Mar 2012

Questions about asphalt jungles

What is asphalt jungles the plural of?
Asphalt jungles is the plural of asphalt jungle.

Words near asphalt jungles in the dictionary

  1. asphalt concrete
  2. asphalt concretes
  3. asphalt emulsion
  4. asphalt emulsions
  5. asphalt jungle
  6. asphalt jungles
  7. asphalt paper
  8. asphalt road
  9. asphalt shingle
  10. asphalt shingles
  11. asphaltane

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