asphalt jungle nouna large city US, 1920The title of a 1949 book by W. R. Burnett as well as an ABCtelevision series starring Jack Warden in 1961. • Shall we take a new stance toward the City and its mass culture—a
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tougher stance, a more nervy one—so that we may learn to live
more gracefully and meaningfully in this Asphalt Jungle we have
constructed around us? ( Letter to Editor ) — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 2,
28th December 1952
• “I’m not anxious. I’ve been waiting too long, ” her owner and
skipper Bradford Simmons said. “I’m free of the asphalt jungle. ”
— San Francisco Examiner, p. 17, 19th November 1964
