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jun⋅gle

  [juhng-guhl]
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–noun
1. a wild land overgrown with dense vegetation, often nearly impenetrable, esp. tropical vegetation or a tropical rain forest.
2. a tract of such land.
3. a wilderness of dense overgrowth; a piece of swampy, thickset forestland.
4. any confused mass or agglomeration of objects; jumble: a jungle of wrecked automobiles.
5. something that baffles or perplexes; maze: a jungle of legal double-talk.
6. a scene of violence and struggle for survival: The neglected prison was a jungle for its inmates.
7. a place or situation of ruthless competition: the advertising jungle.
8. Slang. a hobo camp.
Origin:
1770–80; < Hindi jaṅgal < Pali, Prakrit jaṅgala rough, waterless place

Related forms:
jungled, adjective
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Jungle, The

 
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a novel (1906) by Upton Sinclair.
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jun·gle   (jŭng'gəl)   
n.  

  1. Land densely overgrown with tropical vegetation.

  2. A dense thicket or growth.

  3. A dense, confused mass; a jumble.

  4. Something made up of many confused elements; a bewildering complex or maze: sorting through the jungle of regulations.

  5. A place or milieu characterized by intense, often ruthless competition or struggle for survival: the corporate jungle.

  6. Slang A place where hoboes camp.


[Ultimately from Sanskrit jaṅgalam, desert, wasteland, uncultivated area, from jaṅgala-, desert, waste.]
jun'gly (-glē) adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
jungle

  1. n.
    a vicious area of confusion; the real world. : The place is a jungle out there. You'll grow up fast out there.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

jungle 
1776, from Hindi jangal "desert, forest, wasteland, uncultivated ground," from Skt. jangala-s "arid, sparsely grown with trees," of unknown origin. Specific sense of "land overgrown by vegetation in a wild, tangled mass" is first recorded 1849; meaning "place notoriously lawless and violent" is first recorded 1906, from Upton Sinclair's novel (cf. asphalt jungle, 1949; blackboard jungle, 1954). Jungle gym was a trademark name, 1923, by Junglegym Inc., Chicago, U.S. Jungle bunny, derogatory for "black person," attested from 1966.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

jungle

see law of the jungle.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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