'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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“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
“We’ve always shot bush tucker to eat. That’s one thing I like about ’roo shooting.
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
This beast was mad strong, though, and Maloney had to go hard to save Hatchi — wrestling the roo in the water until he could blind it with splashes and get Hatchi to the shore.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2023
A bit later on when my friend had gone home, I went into him and said, "Dad, 'Hey willy wallachy, how John Dougal / Alane quo rushety, roo, roo, roo'. Now that's gibberish."
From BBC ● May 22, 2018
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
"Te rill, te roo, the sky is blue," sang he.
From The Magic Speech Flower or Little Luke and His Animal Friends by Hix, Melvin
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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