[net.nlang] Meaning of "kangaroo sale"

wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (10/18/84)

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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