Jackaroo
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Jackaroo is a noun meaning (Australia, Queensland, obsolete) A white man living outside of a white settlement.
Meaning
(Australia, Queensland, obsolete) A white man living outside of a white settlement.
More Meanings
- (intransitive) To work as a jackaroo.
- (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.
Example Sentences
Bill has gone jackarooing out west.
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.
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.
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’.
Word Forms
- jackaroos
- jackeroo
- jackarooing
- jackarooed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include jackeroo, jacky, jackass, jillaroo, jackarse, jackman.
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