kangaroo court

[kangaroo court] {n.}

A self-appointed group that decides what to do to someone who is supposed to have done wrong.

* /The Chicago mob held a kangaroo court and shot the gangster who competed with Al Capone./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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