n.
   - an area of land with dense forest and tangled vegetation, typically in the tropics.
- a very competitive or complex situation or place.
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(also jungle music)
 a style of dance music with very fast electronic drum tracks and slower synthesized bass lines.
Phrase
  
    
      - the law of the jungle
 the principle that those who are strongest and most selfish will be most successful.
 
  Derivative
  
    - jungled adj.
- junglist n. & adj.
- jungly adj.
 
  Etymology
  C18: via Hindi from Sanskrit jāṅgala ‘rough and arid (terrain)’.