kangaroo camp

noun

A resting site used by kangaroos, especially during the less active times of the day.

Meanings

nounkangaroo camp (plural kangaroo camps)

plural kangaroo camps

  1. A resting site used by kangaroos, especially during the less active times of the day.

    ‘We must have sat down on a kangaroo camp when we boiled the billy at midday,’ I remarked irritably. Laurie laughed while I burned three kangaroo ticks from my legs.

    1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 82
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