noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a kangaroo court (= an unofficial court that punishes people unfairly )
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The army reportedly held kangaroo courts and executed alleged rebels.
kangaroo court
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
court
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It's grossly unfair for television to single out one player from one game and conduct a kangaroo court there and then.
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He was fined recently in kangaroo court and the pitchers offered to pay it.&038;.
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He leads the reader into assuming that the tribunal is anything other than a kangaroo court .
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It was like a kangaroo court , he thought.
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The kangaroo court decided the punishment must fit the crime and ruled that he stay in his cell during the jailhouse comedy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the Desert Garden Hotel, the buffet line is digging into kangaroo stew.
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Billy's short legs kept getting tangled in the heather, so he bounced along like a kangaroo through the springy tufts.
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But only the lucky and the sharp-eyed will catch sight of a kangaroo .
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For Gordon Griggs, professor of zoology at Queensland University, the kangaroo issue has become a cause.
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For jarrah, wheat and giant kangaroos the conflict is obvious.
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Out of Canberra you can see wombats, possums and kangaroos at dusk if you leave the main road.
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She raves over the low cholesterol content of kangaroo and it's distinctive, sweet taste.
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Wooden horses and kangaroos and chickens went round and round also, a few of them with children on their backs.