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old man kangaroo(also old man roo) noun AustralianA fully grown male kangaroo: men’s lives have been lost through approaching incautiously an old man kangaroo...- I would gaze in wonder at pictures of the koala and kookaburra, the platypus and Tasmanian bush-devil, Old Man Kangaroo and Yellow Dog Dingo, and Sydney Harbour Bridge.
- If you hit one of the old man roos, you do an enormous amount of damage.
- Though the koalas and possums smuggled aboard perished for want of the right food on the trip over, here now is a surviving Old Man Kangaroo, who refuses to budge from the wharf.
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