ADJ
dense, impenetrable, thick | tropical
concrete, urban
After years living in the urban jungle of Tokyo, she finally moved to the countryside.
JUNGLE + NOUN
warfare
PREP
in ~
Lost explorers spent weeks trying to find their way out of the dense jungle.
through ~
The explorers had to cut a path through thick jungle to reach the remote village.
noun
A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; 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 treading lightly and with head erect, in proud consciousness of his might.
Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
It’s a jungle out there.
The first-timer just doesn't know what's going on when he gets to jail. […] It's a jungle, you've got to look after yourself first.
A tangled mess.
[…] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]
An area where hobos camp together.
adj
resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle.
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.
Somewhere further up the valley a bunch of hippies were getting back to nature by loading up on mind altering chemicals and overwhelming their senses with five million decibels of digital bass and jungle beats.
A system used by primitive cultures in remote tropical regions for communication over long distances, such as drum sounds or a relay of runners.
Working both sides of the stream, they got native chieftains to pass the word by jungle telegraph.
An urban or other populated area containing a high density of buildings constructed of concrete or similar materials, especially one which lacks greenery and which seems unattractive, harsh, or unsafe.
There is nothing quite like the affection of a transplanted New Yorker for his native concrete jungle.
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.
Black people, in the view of racists, behave badly regardless of their whereabouts or socialization.
The lion; Panthera leo.
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 h
WiktionaryIt’s a jungle out there.
WiktionaryThe first-timer just doesn't know what's going on when he gets to jail. […] It's a jungle, you've got to look after yourself first.
WiktionaryShe gave her first performance at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles, offering festival dances, Moro tribal rituals, primitive jungle rhythms and rice harvest ceremonials.
WiktionarySomewhere further up the valley a bunch of hippies were getting back to nature by loading up on mind altering chemicals and overwhelming their senses with five million decibels of digital bass and jun
WiktionaryWe will get through the jungle somehow.
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