jackaroo

American  

[jak-uh-roo] / ˌdʒæk əˈru /

noun

plural

jackaroos, jackarooed, jackarooing

1. jackeroo.

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Example Sentences

I suppose, and you can't have Peter Allen chewing the ram-stag mutton and pretending to be a jackaroo.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said one: "The jackaroo who started that story probably saw a wallaby."

From Time Magazine Archive

Jim was little more than a new-chum jackaroo; he was no bushman and generally got lost when he went down the next gully.

From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry

There's the usual yarn about a jackaroo mistaking Thompson for a brother rouser, and asking him whether old Baldy was about anywhere, and Baldy said: "Why, are you looking for a job?"

From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry

And if a jackaroo got up to sing, `Just before the battle, mother,' or, `Mother bit me in me sleep,' he'd find it was just before the battle all right.

From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry