asphalt jungle
nounEtymology
From W. R. Burnett's novel The Asphalt Jungle (1949).
Definitions
A city or urban area, where the landscape is covered by pavement and the environment is…
A city or urban area, where the landscape is covered by pavement and the environment is alienating and unsafe.
- The sound track tingles with cool jazz, the dry atonal music of the asphalt jungle.
- Harlem comes through as an urban hothouse mean with exotic hustle and violence, a tangible asphalt jungle with its own abrasive laws of motion.
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