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
There came a jackaroo on a visit to the station.
From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry
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 Lawson, Henry
We went most of the way by rail and coach, and then a jackaroo met us with a fine pair of horses in a waggonette.
From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis
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