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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

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

The Giraffe struck the deaf jackaroo in the neat room.

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

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

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

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

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

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