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KANGAROO COURT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kangaroo court mean? 

KANGAROO COURT (noun)
  The noun KANGAROO COURT has 1 sense:

1. an irregular unauthorized courtplay

  Familiarity information: KANGAROO COURT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


KANGAROO COURT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An irregular unauthorized court

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("kangaroo court" is a kind of...):

court; judicature; tribunal (an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business)


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