Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rubber jungle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.87 in modern English

Syllables: rub-ber jun-gle
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In a commercial passenger airliner, the dense, forest-like profusion of suspended tubes, straps, bags, and masks which results when large numbers of oxygen masks are deployed.

Informal

Example Sentences

"By the way, when all the masks are hanging out, it's sometimes referred to as the "rubber jungle.""
"From the day before, an accidental deployment of oxygen masks—a rubber jungle, in airline-speak—was discussed."
"I looked back to see what was going on, and observed a rubber jungle of oxygen masks hanging from the overhead bins."

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

rubber jungles (plural)

Questions

What does rubber jungle mean?: In a commercial passenger airliner, the dense, forest-like profusion of suspended tubes, straps, bags, and masks which results when large numbers of oxygen masks are deployed.

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