Meaning of kangaroo dog | Babel Free

Definitions

A dog used to hunt kangaroos; (specifically), a breed of dog for this purpose, developed in Australia from the Scottish deerhound and the greyhound.

Australia

Examples

“A good dog of this kind is valuable; but we meet with so many cross-bred mongrels, that half the dogs which are called kangaroo-hounds are hardly worth their keep; and I do think a lazy, half-starved, good-for-nothing kangaroo-dog is the biggest loafer one can see about a tent.”

“He was as concerned as a rabbit when it is cornered by a kangaroo dog.”

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