kangaroo dog

British  

noun

1. an Australian breed of large rough-haired dog that resembles a greyhound and is bred to hunt kangaroos

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kangaroo dog

He cowed down before the doc like a whipped kangaroo dog, and darn me if he even so much as swore when Dr Tom asked him out to fight.'

From Settling Day by Nat Gould

Here she let go my hands, and sobbed and cried as if she was a child again, much as I remember her doing one day when my kangaroo dog killed her favourite cat.

From Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields by Rolf Boldrewood

Botts was uppermost, when the kangaroo dog seized him by the seat of his breeches.

From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by George Yellott

I shouted, without looking round; and the next moment I felt as if a big kangaroo dog had catapulted himself through twenty feet of space, and lit on my package.

From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy

Cooper was too lazy to reply; and we smoked dreamily, while my kangaroo dog silently abstracted a boiled leg of mutton from Price's tuckerbox, and carried it out of sight.

From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy

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