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
At last they got tired of the fun, Sunlight let the swag lie after Milky called time, and the jackaroo awarded the fight to Rats.
From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry
And if a jackaroo got up to sing, `Just before the battle, mother,' or, `Mother bit me in me sleep,' he'd find it was just before the battle all right.
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
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