jungles

Noun

jungle (countable and uncountable, plural jungles)

1. A large, lush, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, thick with vegetation and wildlife; a tropical rainforest.
   • 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...1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantyne Books, published 1963, page 81
2. (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, South-Asia, Sri-Lanka) Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
3. (colloquial) A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
   • It’s a jungle out there.
4. (figuratively) A tangled mess.
   • […] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC
5. (slang) An area where hobos camp together.
6. (uncountable) A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
   • 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...1994 September, Simon Reynolds, “Above The Treeline”, in The Wire

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