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jungle
noun- a dangerous, rough part of town, especially one where black people live US, 1926
- See, it was in the jungle there and he was looking for somebody that could sit in a car without looking like he didn’t belong there, you know? — George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Doyle, pp. 21–22, 1971
- If he thinks I’m going up into the Jungle this time of night, he can shove it. — Taxi Driver, 1976
- an outdoor area favoured by homosexuals for sexual encounters US
- I discovered the jungle of Central Park–between the 60s and 70s on the west side. — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 62, 1963
- the female pubic hair; hence the vagina US
- — Erica Orloff and JoAnn Baker, Dirty Little Secrets, p. 71, 2001
- a tramp encampment US, 1908
- They had gone about fifteen miles down the railroad tracks and holed-up in a jungle. — Chester Himes, Cast the First Stone, p. 275, 1952
- a prison’s recreation yard US
- — Marlene Freedman, Alcatraz, 1983
- an extremely fast (130–160 beats per minute) form of popular dance music genre that developed in London in 1990–91 UK, 1990
- — Mo Bean, Let’s Go Clubbing, p. 295, 1998
- British and European rave styles like bleep-and-bass, breakbeat house, Belgian hardcore, jungle, gabba, big beat and speed garage. — Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, p. xviii, 1998
- [S]moking a lickle draw [marijuana] instead of tooting powders, listening to jungle and chasing young Richards [women] — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 118, 2000
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