jungle

noun

• 1an area of land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation, typically in the tropics:we set off into the jungle the lakes are hidden in dense jungle
• a wild tangled mass of vegetation or other things:the garden was a jungle of bluebells
• a situation or place of bewildering complexity or brutal competitiveness:it’s a jungle out there
• (also hobo jungle) informal a hobo camp.

• 2 (also jungle music) a style of dance music incorporating elements of ragga, hip-hop, and hard core and consisting almost exclusively of very fast electronic drum tracks and slower synthesized bass lines, originating in Britain in the early 1990s. Compare with drum and bass.