This is a bigoted reference to an interracial relationship.
"Jungle fever" is a term that has long been used to refer to Tropical diseases, but has also been used in reference to interracial couples. It became more popularized from the 1991 Spike Lee film, Jungle Fever, starring Wesley Snipes & Annabella Sciorra. It was a controversial film since it highlighted the discomfort that interracial couples can still stir in an intolerant society. See the link below for more information about this film.
Used frequently after the movie aired, in describing someone who had developed feelings for another of a different racial/ethnic background as having "caught the jungle fever," it is also politically incorrect and offensive.
The subtext is that only a diseased white person would want to have a relationship with a black person since they are being characterized as a primitive native from the jungle. This is a prejudiced and uneducated inference.
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No jungle is only a Noun.
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
a jungle bandit, a jungle killer or a jungle smuggler or a jungle robber, a jungle thief or a jungle criminal, jungle crime syndicate
Yes, at the beginning of the sentence and when it forms part of the proper noun. Example: The Jungle Book
totz jungle yellow fever
its white women who have jungle fever
he caught jungle fever in Brazil
Yellow fever exists in tropical and jungle areas.
Yellow fever exists in tropical and jungle areas.
Buying Hawaii - 2013 Jungle Fever - 1.6 was released on: USA: December 2013
Loiter Squad - 2012 Jungle Fever 2-9 was released on: USA: May 2013
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Tanya X - 2010 Jungle Fever 1-1 was released on: USA: 30 December 2010
Jungle Beat - 2003 You Give Me Fever 1-2 is rated/received certificates of: South Africa:PG
Martin - 1992 Blackboard Jungle Fever 1-17 was released on: USA: 21 January 1993