Meaning of jackaroo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A white man living outside of a white settlement.
   Australia, obsolete
2. 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.
   Australia

Examples

“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.”

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