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jungle drums en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only) Drumming performed, or as performed, in the rituals of traditional preindustrial societies.
  2. (figuratively, plural, plural-only) An informal network of news and gossip; the grapevine.
    • The word was out, the jungle drums were thumping, and I was beseeched by the glazed and mahogany masses for whom Canada is not simply a heterogeneous and upscaled lifestyle but an entirely new sense of possibilities. 1998, Lorne Foster, Turnstile Immigration: Multiculturalism, Social Order & Social Justice in Canada, page 27:
    • Durham was only thirty miles from Middlesbrough, but clearly isolated from the jungle drums of Teesside gossip. 2020, Fiona Erskine, The Chemical Reaction: