Usually means: Urban landscape dominated by asphalt.
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  1. asphalt jungle: Merriam-Webster
  2. asphalt jungle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. asphalt jungle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. asphalt jungle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. asphalt jungle: Wiktionary
  6. asphalt jungle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. asphalt jungle: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. asphalt jungle: Dictionary.com
  9. Asphalt Jungle, Asphalt jungle, The Asphalt Jungle (TV series), The Asphalt Jungle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. asphalt jungle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. asphalt jungle: Merriam-Webster

Definitions from Wiktionary (asphalt jungle)

noun:  (idiomatic) A city or urban area, where the landscape is covered by pavement and the environment is alienating and unsafe.

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