[f. prec. sb.]
1. intr. To hunt the kangaroo. Chiefly in pres. pple. and vbl. sb.
1849. Sturt, Centr. Austr., I. 91. [The natives] were about to go out kangarooing…. They had their hunting spears.
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Robbery under Arms, 15. We were sick of kangarooing, like the dogs themselves. Ibid., Miner’s Right (1899), 135/2. I lent it to him to go kangarooing.
2. intr. To make a great jump (lit. and fig.).
1889. Chicago Advance, 12 Dec. Those who kangaroo from the foregoing inferences … to the conclusion that [etc.].
1892. Pall Mall Gaz., 19 Sept., 2/3. When the horses kangarooed over the 8-ft. water-jump.
