Wiktionary:Word of the day/2023/August 12

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Word of the day
for August 12
kangaroo court n
  1. (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.

The High Court of Australia—emphatically not a kangaroo court in the proper sense of the term—was established on this day 120 years ago in 1903.

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