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kangaroo noun- a Jewish person UK, 1943
Rhyming slang, sometimes corrupted to “kanker” or “canker”. - — Julian Franklyn, A Dictionary of Rhyming Slang, 1960
- — Ray Puxley, Cockney Rabbit, 1992
- crack cocaine US
- From the image of the beast hopping. — US Department of Justice, Street Terms, October 1994
- a tractor adapted for apple-picking CANADA
- Walkmen on tractors (and on "kangaroos," as I learned to my pleasure when we visited Kelowna in 1989 and found that’s what apple farmers call the machines they ride). — Nadine Erickson, in The Latest Morningside Papers, p. 259, 1989
- a prison warder UK
Prisoners’ rhyming slang for SCREW - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 68, 1996
- They always made the kangas earn their shillings. — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 8, 2000
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