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jungle rot
noun
any skin rash suffered in tropical and jungle environments US, 1945- “Jungle rot,” “New Guinea crud” or “the creeping crud” are U.S. servicemen’s names for any & every kind of tropical skin disease. — Time, p. 76, 13 August 1946
- I also have a good case of jungle rot–a sprawling fungus Down There, or rather on either side of it. — Martin Russ, Happy Hunting Ground, p. 173, 1968
- A rehab normally lasted only three days, but this one had stretched to ten; plenty of time for the jungle rot to dry out and heal, even enough time to get a suntan. — Charles Anderson, The Grunts, p. 27, 1976
- Cures heartburn, jungle rot, the Gee-fucken-Eyes, all them things. — Larry Heinemann, Close Quarters, p. 26, 1977
- All of us had done something really brave and stupid to get this three-day R&R, and all of us had varying degrees of jungle rot, which was helped by the sun and salt water. — Nelson DeMille, Up Country, p. 280, 2002
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