Usage examples for kangaroo:

• How many of us to- day, fellow- journalists, would be willing to stay in jail while the lawn festival and the kangaroo came and went? "Comic History of the United States" – Bill Nye

• The child stared as at the jump of a kangaroo "What Maisie Knew" – Henry James

• But why don't you be the kangaroo then, Joe, and let Davie be something else? "The Adventures of Joel Pepper" – Margaret Sidney

• Of course, had we not been anxious to push on, we might have been able to get at them, and might possibly also have got up with the kangaroo we first saw. "Twice Lost" – W.H.G. Kingston