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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024as′phalt jun′gle, - Sociologyany large, crowded city or urban area regarded as a dangerous place where people are engaged in a struggle for survival.
- popularized by a novel of the same title (1949) by west, western.R. Burnett (born 1899), U.south, southern. novelist and screenwriter apparently coined by George Ade in a fable published in 1917
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