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Look up: kangaroo

  1. kangaroo
    [n] - any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail
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  2. kangaroo
    The carriage of TIR trailers on special rail wagons. Category: Management in the public and private sector
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  3. Kangaroo
    Kan'ga·roo' noun [ Said to be the native name.] (Zoology) Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidæ . They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, They have long and strong hind legs and a larg...
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  4. kangaroo
    <zoology> Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidae. They inhabit Australia, new Guinea, and adjacent islands, They have long and strong hind legs and a large tail, while the fore legs are comparatively short and feeble. The giant kangaroo (Macropus major) is...
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  5. kangaroo
    noun any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail
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  6. Kangaroo
    • (n.) Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidae. They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, They have long and strong hind legs and a large tail, while the fore legs are comparatively short and feeble. The giant kangaroo (Macropus major) is the...
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  7. Kangaroo
    (from the article `Lawrence, D.H.`) Lawrence wrote Kangaroo in six weeks while visiting Australia in 1922. This novel is a serious summary of his own position at the time. The main ... During the 1920s Lawrence (who had left England in 1919) and Eliot began to develop viewpoints at odds with the reputations they had established ... [...
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  8. kangaroo
    any of six large species of Australian marsupials noted for hopping and bouncing on their hind legs. The term kangaroo, most specifically used, ... [6 related articles]
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  9. kangaroo
    kangaroo, name for a variety of hopping marsupials, or pouched mammals, of the family Macropodidae, found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. The term is applied especially to the large kangaroos of the genus Macropus. Kangaroos have powerful hind legs designed for leaping, long feet, short fore...
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  10. Kangaroo
    Kangaroo is London Cockney rhyming slang for a Jew.
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  11. Kangaroo
    Kangaroo is London Cockney rhyming slang for a Jew.
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  12. Kangaroo
    Kangaroo is the popular name of any marsupial of the family Macropodidae found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea.
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  13. kangaroo
    Any of a group of marsupials (mammals that carry their young in pouches) found in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Kangaroos are plant-eaters and most live in groups. They are adapted to hopping, the vast majority of species having very large, powerful back legs and feet compared with the small fo...
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  14. Kangaroo
    A `kangaroo` is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning `large foot`). In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, especially those of the genus Macropus, Red Kangaroo, Antilopine Kangaroo, Eastern Grey Kangaroo and Western Grey Kangar...
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  15. Kangaroo
    (disambiguation) `Kangaroo` is a large Australian marsupial. `Kangaroo` may also refer to: Aircraft and aviation : Businesses : Chess : Child care : Cuisine : Cycling : Fictional characters : Film : Geography : Government : Language : Law : Literature : Mathematics : Military vehicles : Money...
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  16. Kangaroo
    (armoured personnel carrier) A `Kangaroo` was a World War II Commonwealth or British armoured personnel carrier (APC), created by conversion of a tank chassis. Created as an expedient measure by the Canadian Army, the Kangaroos were so successful that they were soon being used by British forc...
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  17. Kangaroo
    (novel) `Kangaroo` is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1923. It is set in Australia. Description: Kangaroo is an account of a visit to New South Wales by an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers, and his German wife Harriet, in the early 1920s. This appears to b...
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  18. Kangaroo
    (comics) `The Kangaroo` is the alias of two fictional Spider-Man villains in the Marvel Universe. The first was introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man #81 in 1970; the second was first seen in Cage #13 in 1993 and made his debut in The Spectacular Spider-Man #242 in 1997. B...
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9 February 2012

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At 7.01pm on 9 February 1996, the IRA ended its 17-month ceasefire with a blast that rocked east London, injured more than 100 people, one critically, and thrust Northern Ireland back into political ferment. After one hour of shock and hectic checking with the security forces who, like the Government, were taken 'completely by surprise', Prime Minister John Major attacked the bombing as 'an appalling outrage'. He called upon Sinn Fein and the IRA to condemn unequivocally those who planted the bomb near South Quay railway station on the Isle of Dogs. read more

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