blacktracker
blacktracker noun: an Aboriginal person employed by police to track down fugitives or lost people, especially in the bush.
Noun
blacktracker (plural blacktrackers)
- An Aboriginal person employed by police to track down fugitives or lost people, especially in the bush.
- At dawn the next day he was away to the Mountain, and with a black-tracker at his heels, explored as much of that wilderness of gully and chasm as nature permitted to him.1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 236
- [N]o one is exempt from the guilt: for we as Aboriginal people were our own blacktracker hunting down Musquito who had in turn hunted down others.2023, Richard Flanagan, Question 7, Knopf, page 230
Forms of blacktracker
| plural | blacktrackers |
|---|---|
| alternative form | black tracker |
| alternative form | black-tracker |
Origin of blacktracker
From black + tracker. Compare blackfellow.
Questions about blacktracker
- What does blacktracker mean?
- Blacktracker means an Aboriginal person employed by police to track down fugitives or lost people, especially in the bush.
- What part of speech is blacktracker?
- Blacktracker is a noun.
- What is the plural of blacktracker?
- The plural of blacktracker is blacktrackers.
Words near blacktracker in the dictionary
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