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jackaroo
noun 2verb 1
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3VERB + JACKAROO
work
PREP.
from
ADV.
once
Definitions
noun
1
A white man living outside of a white settlement.
2
A trainee station manager or owner, working as a stockman or farm hand; formerly, a young man of independent means working at a station in a supernumerary capacity to gain experience.
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’.
verb
1
To work as a jackaroo.
Bill has gone jackarooing out west.
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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.
Wiktionary02
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’.
Wiktionary03
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.
Wiktionary04
Bill has gone jackarooing out west.
Wiktionary05
Most men in Central Queensland work as a Jackaroo at least once.
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