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jackaroo

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Definitions

  1. A white man living outside of a white settlement.

Word origin

Obscure. Possibly from an Aboriginal term meaning wandering white man.

Used in a sentence

  • But this is the tale of a Jackaroo that came from a foreign strand, / And the fight that he fought with Saltbush Bill, the King of the Overland.
  • A Jackeroo lived, as a kind of gentleman apprentice, in the squatter′s or manager′s homestead, not in the men′s huts; but most of his daily work was done side by side with the working ‘hands’.
  • Frequently the overseer would come to me and say a certain jackeroo was useless, and would never be any good, when the boy had only just started.

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