jackaroo
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
Old Peter and a jackaroo were out on the run watching a bush-fire across Sandy Creek.
From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry
My father went out there as a jackaroo, without a penny; and before he died he could ride straightaway all day across his own paddocks.
From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John
A few days later the jackaroo happened to be at Kelly's, a wayside shanty, watching a fight between two bushmen, when Mary rode up.
From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry
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