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"ref": "1996, Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, Waterside Press",
"text": "There are some 32 different terms for prison officers, from the humorously affectionate kanga(rhyming slang:kangaroo = screw) and the variants Scooby-Doo and Dr. Who via the mildly confrontational German (as if still the enemy over 50 years after World War II!) to the outright abuse of shit-parcel.",
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"ref": "2002, Julian Broadhead, Laura Kerr, Prison Writing: A Collection of Fact, Fiction and Verse, Waterside Press, →OCLC, page 90",
"text": "So we thought there'd been trouble over there, maybe all the kangas were getting into mufti.",
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"ref": "2006 February 9, Kevin Lewis, Kaitlyn, Penguin UK, →OCLC",
"text": "‘Fucking loony bin more like. There's no one sick here, not physically anyway. Don't worry, you'll get used to it. It's the kangas you want to watch out for.‘\n‘Kangas?’\n‘Kangaroo. Screw.’",
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"ref": "2010 February 4, Michael Arditti, The Enemy of the Good, Quercus Publishing, →OCLC",
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"ref": "2013, Jonathan Asser, David Mackenzie, Starred Up, spoken by Neville Love (Ben Mendelsohn)",
"text": "They will f***ing dangle you, the kangas. [They'll] make it look like suicide.",
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"ref": "2017 April 27, Kate Dunn, The Dragonfly, Aurora Metro Publications Ltd., →OCLC",
"text": "Even the diversionary fracas on the far side of the room failed to divert him, although the kangas went racing across to deal with it — there was always some kind of a dust up going on.",
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},
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"ref": "2017 April 27, Kate Dunn, The Dragonfly, Aurora Metro Publications Ltd., →OCLC",
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