kangarooburger

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

kangaroo +‎ -burger

Noun[edit]

kangarooburger (plural kangarooburgers)

  1. A burger made with kangaroo meat.
    • 1982, Private Eye, Issues 523-549, unknown page:
      Visitors barely had time to hang the Cortina on a tree, grab a pre-match kangarooburger, and chisel last week's chewinggum off the sea before the netting started to bulge.
    • 2006, George W. Eastman, Christoph Wald, & Jane Crossin, Getting Started in Clinical Radiology: From Image to Diagnosis, Thieme, →ISBN, page 304:
      The chairman also doesn't want to miss this event and is keen to have one of those fresh kangarooburgers Paul has organized from the delicatessen shop down the street.
    • 2009, Emily Ecton, Night of the Living Lawn Ornaments, Aladdin, →ISBN, page 112:
      I closed my eyes and tried to think happy thoughts. But unfortunately the thoughts that kept popping up were of pinking shears, murder, kangarooburgers.

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