Usually means: Informal court lacking proper legalities.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. kangaroo court: Merriam-Webster
  2. kangaroo court: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kangaroo court: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. kangaroo court: Collins English Dictionary
  5. kangaroo court: Vocabulary.com
  6. kangaroo-court: Wordnik
  7. kangaroo court: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. kangaroo court: Wiktionary
  9. kangaroo court: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. kangaroo court: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. kangaroo court: Dictionary.com
  12. Kangaroo Court (Capital Cities song), Kangaroo Court (song), Kangaroo court (Adorable song), Kangaroo court: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. kangaroo court: Rhymezone
  14. kangaroo court: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. kangaroo court: FreeDictionary.org
  16. kangaroo court: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Kangaroo Court: The Word Detective
  18. kangaroo court: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Kangaroo court: World Wide Words
  20. kangaroo court: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. kangaroo court: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Kangaroo Court: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kangaroo court: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. kangaroo court: A Word A Day
  2. kangaroo court: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kangaroo court: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See kangaroo_courts as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (kangaroo court)

noun:  (originally US, idiomatic) A judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding, or a group of people which conducts such proceedings, which is without proper authority, and often acts abusively or decides unjustly.

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