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jungle drums

jungle drums noun: drumming performed, or as performed, in the rituals of traditional preindustrial societies.

Noun

jungle drums pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Drumming performed, or as performed, in the rituals of traditional preindustrial societies.
  2. (figuratively, plural, plural-only) An informal network of news and gossip; the grapevine.
    • Durham was only thirty miles from Middlesbrough, but clearly isolated from the jungle drums of Teesside gossip.2020, Fiona Erskine, The Chemical Reaction
    • The word was out, the jungle drums were thumping, and I was beseeched by the glazed and mahogany masses for whom Canada is not simply a heterogeneous and upscaled lifestyle but an entirely new sense of possibilities.1998, Lorne Foster, Turnstile Immigration: Multiculturalism, Social Order & Social Justice in Canada, page 27

Questions about jungle drums

What does jungle drums mean?
Jungle drums means drumming performed, or as performed, in the rituals of traditional preindustrial societies.
What part of speech is jungle drums?
Jungle drums is a noun.

Words near jungle drums in the dictionary

  1. jungle cock
  2. jungle cocks
  3. jungle crow
  4. jungle crows
  5. jungle curry
  6. jungle drums
  7. jungle fever
  8. jungle fowl
  9. jungle fowls
  10. jungle glories
  11. jungle glory

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