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jackeroo
or jack·a·roo
[ jak-uh-roo ]
noun
, plural jack·e·roos.
- an inexperienced person working as an apprentice on a sheep ranch.
verb (used without object)
, jack·e·rooed, jack·e·roo·ing.
- to work as an apprentice on a sheep ranch.
jackeroo
/ ˌdʒækəˈruː /
noun
- informal.a young male management trainee on a sheep or cattle station
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Word History and Origins
Origin of jackeroo1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of jackeroo1
C19: from jack 1+ ( kang ) aroo
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Example Sentences
The Sydney jackeroo rose impulsively, but Jack glanced at him, and he sat down again.
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He was a groom with a place at his master's table; he was a jackeroo who introduced station life into a town.
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Jackeroo, the unpoetical, was even then sound asleep in his net; and in ten minutes everything was "fixed up."
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A Briton of the Billingsgate type would have appealed to Jackeroo as a man of sound common sense.
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The jackeroo had appeared on the scene from his own room, to which his sensitive soul ever banished him betimes.
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