junglize

Verb

junglize (third-person singular simple present junglizes, present participle junglizing, simple past and past participle junglized)

1. To make jungle-like.
   • It began to junglize planets as a matter of course because primeval worlds provided the most life force.1952, Alfred Elton Van Vogt, Mission: Interplanetary, page 173
   • Adjusting each time to their junglized air becomes a matter of will, a shedding of self-consciousness, a necessary fall back to naked glee, the kind children have at first sighting these quasi-prelapsarian birds.2002, Richard Foerster, “Hummingbird Exhibit”, in Double Going: Poems, page 34
2. To incorporate elements of jungle (precursor of drum and bass), such as rhythmic complexity, energetic beats, and heavy basslines.
   • He had a remarkably wild band, really Ellington-oriented but more junglized. "1998, The Music of Billy May: A Discography, page 4
   • Working in Britain may distance him from the latest developments in Jamaican dancehall, but it keeps the Prof hip to the latest trends from clubland: Fraser's late-'90s output includes plenty of junglized ragga and Trix In The Mix finds him venturing into two-step garage.2001 February, “Mad Professor”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, number 90, page 71
3. (offensive) To incorporate elements of African-American culture.
   • Every sensible adult has observed the attempts being made to junglize our American youngsters .1957, “Junglizing Our Youth”, in The Cross and the Flag, volume 15, page 8
   • He would copy "the South African plan of apartheid," "imprison all anarchists and traitors on the order of Stokely Carmichael and Rap Brown," and "declare martial law in a least twenty of our great junglized cities ."1991, Andrew Frank Johnson, Brian A. Jenkins, The Old Right, the New Right, and the State, page 43