jackaroo
Speech parts
1. jackaroo - Noun
2. jackaroo - Verb
Meaning
(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.
jackaroo (third-person singular simple present jackaroos, present participle jackarooing, simple past and past participle jackarooed)
(intransitive) To work as a jackaroo.
Bill has gone jackarooing out west.
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Other cars sourced from Isuzu during the 1980s were the four-wheel drive Jackaroo (1981), the Shuttle (1982) van and the Piazza (1986) three-door sports hatchback.
Following a 'Funnel-web in the teacher's draw incident', he left school determined to make his mark on the world, working all over Australia in jobs such as Jackaroo and Deep Sea Fisherman.