jackeroo

or jack·a·roo

[ jak-uh-roo ]

noun

, plural jack·e·roos.

1. an inexperienced person working as an apprentice on a sheep ranch.

verb (used without object)

, jack·e·rooed, jack·e·roo·ing.

1. to work as an apprentice on a sheep ranch.

jackeroo

/ ˌdʒækəˈruː /

noun

1. informal.
   a young male management trainee on a sheep or cattle station

Word History and Origins

Origin of jackeroo¹

1875–80; jack ¹ + (kang)aroo; -eroo

Word History and Origins

Origin of jackeroo¹

C19: from jack ¹+ ( kang ) aroo

Example Sentences

The Sydney jackeroo rose impulsively, but Jack glanced at him, and he sat down again.

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He was a groom with a place at his master's table; he was a jackeroo who introduced station life into a town.

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Jackeroo, the unpoetical, was even then sound asleep in his net; and in ten minutes everything was "fixed up."

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A Briton of the Billingsgate type would have appealed to Jackeroo as a man of sound common sense.

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The jackeroo had appeared on the scene from his own room, to which his sensitive soul ever banished him betimes.

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