- a variation of jackeroo.
jackaroo
Americannoun
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jackaroos
plural
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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
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 Henry Lawson
There were two witnesses, but we sent 'em away, and Tom Hall, there, scared the jackaroo.
From Children of the Bush by Henry Lawson
Old Peter and a jackaroo were out on the run watching a bush-fire across Sandy Creek.
From Children of the Bush by Henry Lawson
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 Henry Lawson
They'd tramped a long hungry track and had only met a few wretched jackaroos, driven out of the cities by hard times, and tramping hopelessly west.
From Children of the Bush by Henry Lawson
Well, to make it short, one of the jackaroos went to the police and Bogan cleared out.
From Children of the Bush by Henry Lawson
Why, where I live there's dozens of English public school men working as cockies and jackaroos.
From The Kangaroo Marines by R. W. Campbell
Besides the manager and the jackaroos, there were a few boundary riders to prowl round the fences of the vast paddocks.
From Three Elephant Power and Other Stories by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson
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