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• a variation of jackeroo.

jackaroo

American  

[jak-uh-roo] / ˌdʒæk əˈru /

noun

jackaroos plural

1. jackeroo.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• jackaroos
  plural

Example Sentences

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jackaroo jackaroos

I suppose, and you can't have Peter Allen chewing the ram-stag mutton and pretending to be a jackaroo.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said one: "The jackaroo who started that story probably saw a wallaby."

From Time Magazine Archive

There were two witnesses, but we sent 'em away, and Tom Hall, there, scared the jackaroo.

From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry

One evening the jackaroo was down by the homestead-gate when Mary came cantering home on her tall chestnut.

From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry

Jim was little more than a new-chum jackaroo; he was no bushman and generally got lost when he went down the next gully.

From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry

Why, where I live there's dozens of English public school men working as cockies and jackaroos.

From The Kangaroo Marines by Campbell, R. W.

But the jackaroos can't pay for drinks, an' I have ter pay carriage on the flour an' tea an' sugar an' groceries—an' it all tells up by the end o' the year.

From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry

Over the whirr and roar and hum all day long, and with iteration that is childish and irritating to the intelligent greenhand, float unthinkable adjectives and adverbs, addressed to jumbucks, jackaroos, and mates indiscriminately.

From On the Track by Lawson, Henry

Well, to make it short, one of the jackaroos went to the police and Bogan cleared out.

From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry

I don't know the rights of the case, it was hushed up, as you'll see presently; but, anyway, the jackaroos swore that Bogan had done 'em out of ten quid.

From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry