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plural jackaroos
(Australia, Queensland, obsolete) A white man living outside of a white settlement.
(Australia) 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. quotations examples
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.
1895, A. B. Paterson, Saltbush Bill: The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses, page 37
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’.
1964, Russel Braddock Ward, The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads, page 86
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.
1974, The Pastoral Review, volume 84, page 611
third-person singular simple present jackaroos, present participle jackarooing, simple past and past participle jackarooed
(intransitive) To work as a jackaroo. examples