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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(Australia, Queensland, obsolete) A white man living outside of a white settlement..
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.
Bill has gone jackarooing out west.
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Jackaroo means (Australia, Queensland, obsolete) A white man living outside of a white settlement..
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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.
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