jungle

A large, lush, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, thick with vegetation and wildlife; a tropical rainforest.countableuncountable

• He's free as a breeze He's always at ease He lives in the jungle And hangs by his knees As he swings through trees Without a trapeze In his BVD's.

Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.BangladeshIndiaNepal

A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.colloquialcountableuncountable

• It’s a jungle out there.

A tangled mess.countablefigurativelyuncountable

• […] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]

An area where hobos camp together.countableslanguncountable

A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.uncountable

• In large part, happycore was the result of an exodus of white ravers from the jungle scene, in reaction to the influx of black youth and the attendant mood change from bonhomie to surliness.

Dense rough.countableslanguncountable

• Hitting from the Jungle. The rough at some courses is just weeds and sparse grass, as often as not giving a player a decent lie to shoot from. But grass above four inches is nasty. It will grab your club and alter your shots.

A dense mass of pubic hair.countableslanguncountable

resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle.not-comparableusually

• 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.