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jungle fever (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) Any of several tropical diseases, but especially malaria.
    • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 181:Thuran, down with an attack of jungle fever, lay in the shelter among the branches of their tree of refuge.
  2. (slang, derogatory) Attraction of a person of non-African descent towards people of African descent. Synonym: black fever

Coordinate terms

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  • coal burner
  • mud shark
  • once you go black, you never go back
  • oreo
  • Oreo
  • snow bunny
  • wigger
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  • Asian fever
  • black fever
  • blue fever
  • white fever
  • yellow fever

Further reading

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  • “jungle fever n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
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