kangaroo
IPA: kæŋgɝˈu
noun
- A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia.
- (Canada, attributive) A hooded jacket with a front pocket, usually of fleece material, a kangaroo jacket.
verb
- To practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.
- (intransitive) To hunt kangaroo.
- (intransitive) To move like a kangaroo.
adjective
- Of or relating to Australia.
- (finance, investments) Characterized by rapidly jumping prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices are unstable in contrast to bear and bull markets.
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Examples of "kangaroo" in Sentences
- The kangaroo would be the ideal image.
- The kangaroo lives in groups of up to 15.
- He is the successor of the original Kangaroo.
- The symbol is derived from the form of a bounding kangaroo.
- Buroinjin was the name of the ball made from kangaroo skin.
- It included the species oscillans, the Carnivorous Kangaroo.
- The flower depicted on the cover of the single is a Kangaroo paw.
- The wolf is the predator, not the prey, which is what the kangaroo is.
- Brian Hibbs is the second person to take on the identity of the kangaroo.
- For the same reason, the kangaroo of Papua is missing in the other region.
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