Meanings
- NigeriauncountableExtrajudicial punishment, including lynching.
If I didnʼt run […] maybe they will make me suffer this jungle justice thing, burn me with fire because they think I am a thief.
2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 1481 more example
2025, 1 September, Chris Ewokor, Mob burns Nigerian woman to death for alleged blasphemy (BBC News) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y21zxyd6mo Police condemned the killing of the woman - identified in local media as a food vendor named Amaye - as "jungle justice", saying that an investigation was under way to arrest and prosecute the perpetrators.
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jungle justice. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jungle%20justice
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