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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The jackaroo yard-boy, aforesaid, volunteered to take it up, and while he was gone there were hints of hysterics from the kitchen, and the boss whispered in his turn to the crowd over the bar.

From The Rising of the Court by Henry Lawson

The Giraffe struck the deaf jackaroo in the neat room.

From Children of the Bush by Henry Lawson

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 Henry Lawson

These, and a big bucket-handled frying-pan and a few rusty convict-time arms on the slab walls, were mostly to amuse jackaroos and jackarooesses, and let them think they were getting into the Australian-dontcherknow at last.

From The Rising of the Court by Henry Lawson

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 Henry Lawson

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

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