jungle drums

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jungle drums

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plural, plural only Drumming performed, or as performed, in the rituals of traditional preindustrial societies.
figuratively, plural, plural only An informal network of news and gossip; the grapevine. Durham was only thirty miles from Middlesbrough, but clearly isolated from the jungle drums of Teesside gossip.

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@misc{jungle_drums_2026,
  title = {jungle drums},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/jungle%20drums},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}