See kangaroo court in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "The Concordia Intelligencer says \"several loafers were lynched in Natchez last week upon various charges instituted by the Kangaroo court.[…]\" What is a Kangaroo court, neighbor?",
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"ref": "1856, Charles Summerfield [pseudonym; Alfred W. Arrington], “The Trial—An Execution”, in The Rangers and Regulators of the Tanaha: Or, Life among the Lawless. A Tale of the Republic of Texas, New York: Robert M. De Witt, […], →OCLC, page 247:",
"text": "Sol Tuttle interposed; \"Don't you let nobody hev any witnesses i[n] this kangaroo court?\"",
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"ref": "1858 July 14, Theodoric F. Sorrells, “To the Voters of the Second Judicial Circuit [letter]”, in C. C. Danley, editor, Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat, volume XXXIX, number 24 (Gazette); volume XIII, number 3 (Democrat), Little Rock, Ark.: W. F. Holtzmann, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:",
"text": "He [Judge Murray] endeavors to place me in the position of having assailed him, by describing the courts held by him as Kangaroo courts, and imputes to me a settled purpose to alienate all social and friendly relations, between the bench, bar, officers of the court, and all others, who come in direct contact with the courts. Now, all this is simply untrue, as well as ridiculous.",
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"ref": "1893 March 10, “Scotch verdict”, in M[arshall] M. Murdock, editor, The Wichita Eagle, volume XXI, number 52, Wichita, Kan.: [M. M. Murdock], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 7:",
"text": "[A]bout twenty prisoners were confined in the city prison at the time and were all more or less drunk on white line (alcohol) furnished through the window by outside parties; […] two kangaroo courts were held the day on which Varnoff was convicted of violating the prison rules, was fined 50 cents each time and searched by officers of the court.",
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"ref": "1933 April 10, “The New Pictures: M by Fritz Lang”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-04-15:",
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"ref": "1951 April 23, William O[rville] Douglas, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, “Williams v. United States”, in Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School (341 U.S. 97, 71 S. Ct. 576, 95 L. Ed. 774), archived from the original on 2022-08-29, paragraph 8:",
"text": "[W]here police take matters in their own hands, seize victims, beat and pound them until they confess, there cannot be the slightest doubt that the police have deprived the victim of a right under the Constitution. It is the right of the accused to be tried by a legally constituted court, not by a kangaroo court.",
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"ref": "2003 December, David Glazier, “Kangaroo Court or Competent Tribunal?: Judging the 21st Century Military Commission”, in Virginia Law Review, volume 89, number 8, Charlottesville, Va.: Virginia Law Review Association, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2093:",
"text": "A military commission trial falling short of the full UCMJ standard is all but certain to be pejoratively judged as a \"kangaroo court\" in the court of public opinion.",
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"ref": "1858 July 14, Theodoric F. Sorrells, “To the Voters of the Second Judicial Circuit [letter]”, in C. C. Danley, editor, Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat, volume XXXIX, number 24 (Gazette); volume XIII, number 3 (Democrat), Little Rock, Ark.: W. F. Holtzmann, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:",
"text": "He [Judge Murray] endeavors to place me in the position of having assailed him, by describing the courts held by him as Kangaroo courts, and imputes to me a settled purpose to alienate all social and friendly relations, between the bench, bar, officers of the court, and all others, who come in direct contact with the courts. Now, all this is simply untrue, as well as ridiculous.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1893 March 10, “Scotch verdict”, in M[arshall] M. Murdock, editor, The Wichita Eagle, volume XXI, number 52, Wichita, Kan.: [M. M. Murdock], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 7:",
"text": "[A]bout twenty prisoners were confined in the city prison at the time and were all more or less drunk on white line (alcohol) furnished through the window by outside parties; […] two kangaroo courts were held the day on which Varnoff was convicted of violating the prison rules, was fined 50 cents each time and searched by officers of the court.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1933 April 10, “The New Pictures: M by Fritz Lang”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-04-15:",
"text": "They take him off to face their kangaroo court in the cellar of a deserted brewery.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1951 April 23, William O[rville] Douglas, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, “Williams v. United States”, in Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School (341 U.S. 97, 71 S. Ct. 576, 95 L. Ed. 774), archived from the original on 2022-08-29, paragraph 8:",
"text": "[W]here police take matters in their own hands, seize victims, beat and pound them until they confess, there cannot be the slightest doubt that the police have deprived the victim of a right under the Constitution. It is the right of the accused to be tried by a legally constituted court, not by a kangaroo court.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2003 December, David Glazier, “Kangaroo Court or Competent Tribunal?: Judging the 21st Century Military Commission”, in Virginia Law Review, volume 89, number 8, Charlottesville, Va.: Virginia Law Review Association, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2093:",
"text": "A military commission trial falling short of the full UCMJ standard is all but certain to be pejoratively judged as a \"kangaroo court\" in the court of public opinion.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding, or a group of people which conducts such proceedings, which is without proper authority, and often acts abusively or decides unjustly."
],
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"(originally US, idiomatic) A judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding, or a group of people which conducts such proceedings, which is without proper authority, and often acts abusively or decides unjustly."
],
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"wikipedia": [
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"California Gold Rush",
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"ipa": "/ˌkæŋɡəˌɹuː ˈkɔːt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌkæŋɡəˌɹu ˈkɔɹt/",
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"General-American"
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},
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "mahkamat alkanghar",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "محكمة الكنغر"
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
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"word": "tribunal cangur"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dàishǔ fǎtíng",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"word": "袋鼠法庭"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"word": "私設公堂"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "sīshè gōngtáng",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"word": "私设公堂"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "volksgericht"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"word": "konstruigita proceso"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"informal"
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"word": "kenttäoikeus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"word": "pikatuomioistuin"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"word": "toverituomioistuin"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tribunal fantoche"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tribunal illégal"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "tribunal improvisé"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tribunal irrégulier"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tribunal populaire"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Pseudogericht"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Schaugericht"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Scheingericht"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"word": "pengadilan kanguru"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cúirt bhradach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tribunale illegale"
},
{
"alt": "つるしあげ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tsurushiage",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"word": "吊し上げ"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "kaenggeoru jaepan",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"word": "캥거루 재판"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nezákonski sud",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "неза́конски суд"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"word": "دادگاه پوشالی"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dintojra"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "sąd kapturowy"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tribunal canguru"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tribunal arbitrário"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sud kengurú",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "суд кенгуру́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "паро́дия на суд m (paródija na sud, literally “a parody of a court”)",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "šemjákin sud",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шемя́кин суд"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "klokanski sȗd"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "kvazisȗd"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "skenprocess"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "sǎan-dtîia",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "ศาลเตี้ย"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "săan tèuan",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"word": "ศาลเถื่อน"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"word": "phiên tòa chuột túi"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "llys cangarŵ"
}
],
"word": "kangaroo court"
}
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