jungle

1. (South Asia) Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.South-Asiacountableuncountable

2. (colloquial) A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.Examples: "It’s a jungle out there."; "The first-timer just doesn't know what's going on when he gets to jail. […] It's a jungle, you've got to look after yourself first."; "But of course, that excludes the narcissistic delusionals, the deliberate frauds, and the pathological cases of multiple personality. They are all out there in New Age Land, and it's a jungle!"colloquialcountableuncountable

3. (figurative) A tangled mess.Examples: "[…] lost in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic and foreign […]"countablefigurativelyuncountable

4. (slang) An area where hobos camp together.countableslanguncountable

5. (music, uncountable) A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.Examples: "Always more multiracial than other post-Rave scenes, Hardcore got “blacker” as hiphop, Ragga, dub and Soul influences kicked in, and by 93 it had evolved into Jungle. By this point, Hardcore/Jungle (the terms remain interchangeable) was universally scorned by dance hipsters and banished from the media."; "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."uncountable

6. (golf slang) Dense rough.Examples: "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."Synonyms: tiger countrycountableslanguncountable