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Asphalt jungle
A city or urban area, where the landscape is covered by pavement and the environment is alienating and unsafe.
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A city or urban area, where the landscape is covered by pavement and the environment is alienating and unsafe.
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| blacktopnoun | (US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac). |
| pavementnoun | (chiefly UK, Ireland, South Africa, Canada, Mid-Atlantic US, countable) A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road. |
| hot topnoun | (Maine, Massachusetts) asphalt; pavement |
| asphaltnoun | A sticky, black to brown and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid, composed almost entirely of bitumen with small mineral particles, that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits. |
| asphalt concretenoun | A material often used for road surfacing, composed of a hard, granular material such as crushed stone combined with asphalt as a binder. |
| car sewernoun | (urban studies, derogatory) A place made unfriendly or dangerous to non-drivers by cars and car infrastructure. |
| blightscapenoun | A vulgar, decaying, or ruined place. |
| shitscapenoun | (slang, vulgar) An ugly or unpleasant landscape. |
| hellscapenoun | A hellish landscape. |
| pavingnoun | The hard durable surface placed directly atop the ground, as on a street or sidewalk. |
| junglenoun | A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest. |
| beaten tracknoun | (figuratively, singular only) A well-populated area or well-trodden path; any busy area. |
| tarmacnoun | (loosely, UK, Ireland, Canada) Any bituminous road surfacing material. |
| pavement pizzanoun | (UK, Australia, humorous) A patch of vomit on the pavement, road or ground. |
| blackstuffnoun | (UK, slang) Tarmac. |
| weedscapenoun | A landscape dominated by weeds. |
| pavement-pizzanoun | Alternative form of pavement pizza. [(UK, Australia, humorous) A patch of vomit on the pavement, road or ground.] |
| dirt yardnoun | (chiefly US) An unpaved yard that is kept free of grass and other vegetation. |
| macadamnoun | (uncountable) The surface of a road consisting of layers of crushed stone (usually tar-coated for modern traffic). |
| bitumennoun | A sticky, black, highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum, burning with a bright flame. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc.; Mineral pitch. |
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