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blackboard jungle en · NOUN
Meanings
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A school with dangerous, unruly pupils.
[…] could subdue any renegade person or family, but I wonder if they would not meet their match in the blackboard jungles of today.
2015, Martha Stephens, Me and the Grandmas of Baghdad, page 64:[…] blackboard jungles abounded in the media, the widening gap between suburban and urban school performance was frequently in the news.
2011, William J. Reese, America's Public Schools, page 309:
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Blackboard Jungle (1955 film)