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Jackeroo

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.

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jackeroo

n. (alternative spelling of jackaroo English) vb. (alternative spelling of jackaroo English)

Usage examples of "jackeroo".

Bogan, but the other jackeroo 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 jackeroo experts with all their eyes about them.

Also, every jackeroo, station-hand, prospector, fencer, splitter and contractor in the district had made some excuse or other to get a day off for the races.

Soon after, he got the perturbing news the new jackeroo, a kid called Marshall, had been bitten by a desert taipan in the gidgee scrub out at Camp Moggill.

Since then no one has been there except an occasional jackeroo or a walkabout Aborigine.

Land Rover, then she began explaining about the station, the thousands of cattle, the jackeroos - which were cowboys - airplanes, buildings, etc.

Bogan went pretty free in Bourke after the shearing before last, and in the end he got mixed up in a very ugly-looking business: he was accused of doing two new-chum jackeroos out of their stuff by some sort of confidence trick.

New Chum Jackeroos, had been sent up by the Government, or Labour Bureau--that is he was given a pass and some rations, and sent away almost from the ship into the disc of Australia, of which he knew absolutely nothing except the awful blaze and dust of it--the blasting reason-shaking contrast from the green lanes of England--which was driving him mad.

At a second look it would be noticed that he wore a silk shirt, which is only done by jackeroos and very flash shearers.

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

Land Rover, then she began explaining about the station, the thousands of cattle, the jackeroos - which were cowboys - airplanes, buildings, etc.