kangaroo court

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   an irregular unauthorized court

   Broadercourt

Questions about kangaroo court

What does kangaroo court mean?

kangaroo court means "an irregular unauthorized court".

Is kangaroo court a common word?

kangaroo court is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.