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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

"And I wouldn't have married that girl for a thousand pounds," said the jackaroo, relating the incidents to some friends in Sydney.

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

There's the usual yarn about a jackaroo mistaking Thompson for a brother rouser, and asking him whether old Baldy was about anywhere, and Baldy said: "Why, are you looking for a job?"

From While the Billy Boils 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

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 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

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

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