'roo
noun
a shortened form of kangaroo.
'roo
American
[roo]
/ ru /
noun
Australian Informal.
'roos
plural
roo
British
/ ruː /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of 'roo
By shortening
Example Sentences
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“We’ve always shot bush tucker to eat. That’s one thing I like about ’roo shooting.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2021
“At least now I can make a dollar out of it and people get to enjoy the ’roo meat.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2021
Her post-doctoral work on bats, lizards, and kangaroos took her to Australia; at one point she rescued a baby 'roo from a fur trapper and carried it around for a while in her handbag.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2011
One guy was just heading back to the fourth tee to retrieve his fancy golf-club sock he forgot, when he got a little too close to a roo and startled it.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2023
For most of her life, my Plott hound, Murphy, would roo at people in public places who were doing things that seemed wrong to her.
From Washington Post ● May 29, 2020
They pronounced it ‘SHEH roo’ in keeping with the local Hindi dialect; He had anglicized it to ‘SAH roo.’
From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2017
She told the Manningham Leader the roo had thrown her around “like a rag doll”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 16, 2017
The ree the ra the ree the ra the roo.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
There are both childhood and adult photos of me ecstatically feeding wallabies and ’roos at an open-range zoo an hour outside of Melbourne.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2018
"When she saw us, she watched us for a few minutes, and then she dashed off with the 'roos into the scrub."
From Time Magazine Archive
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