What is "jackaroos"

Usage examples of "jackaroos".

Besides the manager and the jackaroos, there were a few boundary riders to prowl round the fences of the vast paddocks.

These jackaroos-- and I might as well tell you about it so that you can avoid it if ever you should go that way--these jackaroos or sheep cowboys invariably castrate their male lambs in the following barbaric manner: two of them hold the creature upside down by its fore and hind legs.

And these idiots went on to inform me with pride that three competent jackaroos could castrate sixty lambs in sixty minutes and go on doing it all day long.

For assistants, he had half-a-dozen of us — jackaroos and colonial-experiencers — who got nothing a year, and earned it.