a kangaroo court



a kangaroo court

a court of law which is not official and which judges someone in an unfair way A kangaroo court was set up by the strikers to deal with people who had refused to stop working.
See also: court, kangaroo

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
StarrSTAHREnglish
MaartenMAH:R-tənDutch
Tristram-English (British)
Aylward['eilwəd]
Philomela-Greek Mythology
RichardRICH-ərd (English), ree-SHAHR (French), RIKH-ahrt (German)English, French, German, Czech, Slovak, Dutch, Ancient Germanic