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Example sentences for: kangaroo

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More demonstrative are the uses of the kangaroo, as evidenced by kangaroo dog, kangaroo flesh, kangaroo hide, kangaroo hunt, kangaroo leather, kangaroo rug, kangaroo skin, kangaroo soup, kangaroo steak, kangaroo steamer, kangaroo stew, kangaroo tail, kangaroo tail soup ; of bark, as in bark chopper, bark mill, bark stripper; of cedar, as in cedar brush, cedar cutter, cedar grounds, cedar party.
As well as the nonce , the grass informer is also in danger, such danger being especially acute if the offender is dragged into a pad (a.k.a. peter cell) out of sight and hearing of the kangas (short for kangaroo , rhyming slang for screw ).
The possible model of kangaroo suggested an Aboriginal origin, and, in the 1890s, one of the more indefatigable recorders of the Aboriginal languages, Charles Meston, came up with an etymology that fitted the chronology-- and the geography--perfectly.
The Great South Land was to prove extraordinarily rich in new species, some of which, like the kangaroo, had an irresistible novelty about them; at the same time they were as numerous as sheep in England and as useful to man.
It was 1972 before the linguist John Haviland identified the word in the Queensland language Guugu Yimidhirr, where it denoted a particular species of kangaroo and evidenced the fineness of distinction that characterizes Aboriginal languages.