Crossword clues for jackaroo
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jackaroo \Jack`a*roo"\, v. i. To be a jackaroo; to pass one's time as a jackaroo. [Colloq., Australia]
Jackaroo \Jack`a*roo"\, n. Also Jackeroo \Jack`e*roo"\ [Jack + kangaroo.] A young man living as an apprentice on a sheep station, or otherwise engaged in acquainting himself with colonial life.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context Australia Queensland obsolete English) A white man living outside white settlement. 2 (context Australia English) A trainee station manager or owner, working as a stockman or farm hand; formerly, a young man of independent means working at a station in a supernumerary capacity to gain experience. n. 1 (context Australia Queensland obsolete English) A white man living outside white settlement. 2 (context Australia English) A trainee station manager or owner, working as a stockman or farm hand; formerly, a young man of independent means working at a station in a supernumerary capacity to gain experience. vb. (context intransitive English) To work as a jackaroo.
Wikipedia
Jackaroo may refer to:
- Jackaroo (trainee), an Australian agricultural trainee
- Holden Jackaroo, an Australian 4WD utility or wagon for rough ground
- Thruxton Jackaroo, a 1950s British four-seat biplane
- Buddy Williams (country musician), known as the yodeling jackaroo
- Jackaroo, a 1985 novel by Cynthia Voigt
- Jackaroo (miniseries), a 1990 Australian miniseries
A jackaroo is a young man (feminine equivalent jillaroo) working on a sheep or cattle station, to gain practical experience in the skills needed to become an owner, overseer, manager, etc. The word originated in Queensland, Australia in the 19th century and is still in use in Australia and New Zealand in the 21st century. Its origins are unclear, although it is firmly rooted in Australian English, Australian culture and in the traditions of the Australian stockmen.
Jackaroo is a 1990 Australian mini series about a half-caste who goes to work on a West Australian property and falls in love with a girl.
Usage examples of "jackaroo".
Bogan, but the other jackaroo was a cur: he said he wanted the money that Bogan had robbed him of.
Bogan, blind as he was, than half a dozen scientific jackaroo experts with all their eyes about them.
One evening the jackaroo was down by the homestead-gate when Mary came cantering home on her tall chestnut.
Old Peter and a jackaroo were out on the run watching a bush-fire across Sandy Creek.
With the Jackaroo grinding over rocks and stumbling across mini-gorges, by the time the fabled, isolated range itself finally came into view, the two Americans were sore and tired.
As the abused Jackaroo trundled forward along the dirt and gravel track, a nail-tailed wallaby burst from a bush to rocket past in front of them.
When the chasm grew too narrow for the Jackaroo, they parked it in a little side canyon.
In any event he had nothing to stain, having left everything in the way of clothing back in the Jackaroo but for a skimpy pair of briefs.
The Jackaroo made no remark But peeled and waded in, And soon the Man from Ironbark Had three teeth less to grin!
Now in a shop in Sydney, near The Bottle on the Shelf, The tale is told--with trimmings--by The Jackaroo himself.
But this is the tale of a Jackaroo that came from a foreign strand, And the fight that he fought with Saltbush Bill, the King of the Overland.
Wild as the birds in the sun-drenched trees, their children skulked shyly behind the sulky wheels or scuttled for the protection of the woodheap while their parents yarned over cups of tea, swapped tall stories and books, promised to pass on vague messages to Hoopiron Collins or Brumby Waters, and told the fan tastic tale of the Pommy jackaroo on Gnarlunga.
Good stockmen were easy to come by, and Paddy had nine single men on his books in the old jackaroo barracks, so Stuart could be spared from the paddocks.
All the other men made it back to Drogheda homestead ahead of the storm, turned their mounts into the stockyard and headed for either the big house or the jackaroo barracks.
The boys scattered to get horses, and the stockmen were piling out of the jackaroo barracks, while Mrs.