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Definition of roo in English: roonoun ruːru Australian informal A kangaroo. Example sentencesExamples - Meanwhile, however, as they cleared the land and created and improved watering places for livestock, the settlers enabled the roos to multiply exponentially.
- The Australian government has declared open season on roos.
- Unfortunately quite a few were killed by vehicles but if grazing had been effective on neighbouring paddocks, many of the roos would have been saved.
- In much the same way that steers yield far better meat than cows in beef cattle, young male roos make the best eating.
- We began by putting up a high fence, to keep out the roos and the emus and the goats.
- She says once she was driving through a National Park and recognised one of the roos to be Jack, a joey she'd reared years earlier.
- He recalls in 1955 and 1956 it was very wet and the truck he'd use for roo shooting would get bogged, so in 1957 he was only rabbit trapping.
- But he used to bring me any joeys, he was very careful what roos he shot, mostly the bucks, but if he shot a doe and it had a joey, he would bring that to me.
- The humaneness of non-commercial roo shooting has come under fire this week.
- I said, No, I used to, we used to shoot rabbits and roos and stuff, but we haven't been, it's just the target shooting.
Origin Early 20th century: shortened form. Rhymes accrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, mew, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, shrew, Sioux, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo Definition of roo in US English: roonounruro͞o Australian informal A kangaroo. Example sentencesExamples - I said, No, I used to, we used to shoot rabbits and roos and stuff, but we haven't been, it's just the target shooting.
- We began by putting up a high fence, to keep out the roos and the emus and the goats.
- Meanwhile, however, as they cleared the land and created and improved watering places for livestock, the settlers enabled the roos to multiply exponentially.
- She says once she was driving through a National Park and recognised one of the roos to be Jack, a joey she'd reared years earlier.
- The Australian government has declared open season on roos.
- Unfortunately quite a few were killed by vehicles but if grazing had been effective on neighbouring paddocks, many of the roos would have been saved.
- The humaneness of non-commercial roo shooting has come under fire this week.
- He recalls in 1955 and 1956 it was very wet and the truck he'd use for roo shooting would get bogged, so in 1957 he was only rabbit trapping.
- In much the same way that steers yield far better meat than cows in beef cattle, young male roos make the best eating.
- But he used to bring me any joeys, he was very careful what roos he shot, mostly the bucks, but if he shot a doe and it had a joey, he would bring that to me.
Origin Early 20th century: shortened form. |