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kangaroo
noun(kan-ga-roo)
any of various herbivorous leaping marsupial mammals (family Macropodidae) of Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands with a small head, large ears, long powerful hind legs, a long thick tail used as a support and in balancing, and rather small forelegs not used in locomotion
kangaroo
noun(kan-ga-roo)
a mock court in which the principles of law and justice are disregarded or perverted
kangaroo
noun(kan-ga-roo)
a court characterized by irresponsible, unauthorized, or irregular status or procedures
kangaroo
noun(kan-ga-roo)
any of a genus (Dipodomys) of nocturnal burrowing rodents of arid parts of western North America that travel by hopping on their long hind legs and have a long tail and fur-lined cheek pouches
kangaroo
noun(kan-ga-roo)
a large kangaroo (Macropus rufus) of the dry plains of inland Australia with the male having a reddish-brown coat

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