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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Meaning of "kangaroo sale"
Message-ID: <5375@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 10:42:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 18 10:42:44 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 02:03:39 EDT
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The following line is from a car-for-sale posting in net.auto:

>  Kangaroo sale at $3700.

I have never seen nor heard of the term "Kangaroo sale"; is it related
to the term "kangaroo court" (meaning a vigilante trial)? Or what?

Will Martin

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