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black′board jun′gle, [Informal.]
  1. Educationa school or school system characterized by lack of discipline and by juvenile delinquency.
  • 1950–55; on the model of asphalt jungle; popularized by the novel of the same name (1954) by American author Evan Hunter (blend of, blended 1926)


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