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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

There came a jackaroo on a visit to the station.

From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry

Old Peter and a jackaroo were out on the run watching a bush-fire across Sandy Creek.

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

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 Lawson, Henry

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 Lawson, Henry

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 Lawson, Henry

Well, to make it short, one of the jackaroos went to the police and Bogan cleared out.

From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry

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 Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton)