Usually means: Australian marsupial with powerful legs.
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  1. kangaroo: Merriam-Webster
  2. kangaroo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kangaroo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. kangaroo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. kangaroo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Kangaroo, kangaroo: Wordnik
  7. kangaroo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. kangaroo: Wiktionary
  9. kangaroo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. kangaroo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. kangaroo: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Kangaroo, kangaroo: Dictionary.com
  13. kangaroo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. kangaroo: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Kangaroo (Frank Oliver), Kangaroo (armoured personnel carrier), Kangaroo (comics), Kangaroo (disambiguation), Kangaroo (film), Kangaroo (meat), Kangaroo (novel), Kangaroo (video game), Kangaroo (video on demand), Kangaroo, Kangaroo, The Kangaroo (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Kangaroo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. kangaroo: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. kangaroo: Rhymezone
  19. kangaroo: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. kangaroo: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. kangaroo: FreeDictionary.org
  22. kangaroo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Kangaroo: The Word Detective
  24. kangaroo: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. kangaroo: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. kangaroo: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  2. kangaroo: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kangaroo: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. kangaroo: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. kangaroo: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kangaroo: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Kangaroo (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. kangaroo, kangaroo, kangaroo: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. the kangaroo: Urban Dictionary
  4. Kangaroo: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

(Note: See kangarooing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia.
noun:  (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.
verb:  (intransitive) To hunt kangaroo.
verb:  (intransitive) To move like a kangaroo.
adjective:  Of or relating to Australia.
adjective:  (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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