jungle fever en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(uncountable) Any of several tropical diseases, but especially malaria.
Thuran, down with an attack of jungle fever, lay in the shelter among the branches of their tree of refuge.
1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 181:
- (derogatory, slang, uncountable) Attraction of a person of non-African descent towards people of West, Central, East or Southern African descent.
Coordinates
snow bunny (sexual attraction) · Oreo (sexual attraction) · mud shark (sexual attraction) · once you go black, you never go back (sexual attraction) · wigger (sexual attraction) · coal burner (sexual attraction) · oreo (sexual attraction)
Relateds
black fever (sexual attraction) · blue fever (sexual attraction) · yellow fever (sexual attraction) · Asian fever (sexual attraction) · white fever (sexual attraction)