OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 49587

asphalt jungle

Meanings (ES + gloss)
jungla de asfalto
A city or urban area, where the landscape is covered by pavement and the environment is alienating and unsafe.
Harlem comes through as an urban hothouse mean with exotic hustle and violence, a tangible asphalt jungle with its own abrasive laws of motion.
The sound track tingles with cool jazz, the dry atonal music of the asphalt jungle.
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