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jackeroo

jackeroo is the alternative spelling of jackaroo.

Meaning of jackaroo

Noun

jackaroo (plural jackaroos)

  1. (Australia, obsolete) A white man living outside of a white settlement.
  2. (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.
    • 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.1895, A. B. Paterson, Saltbush Bill: The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses, page 37

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Forms of jackeroo

Noun
pluraljackeroos
Verb
third-person singular presentjackeroos
present participlejackerooing
past participlejackerooed
pastjackerooed

Questions about jackeroo

What is jackeroo the alternative spelling of?
Jackeroo is the alternative spelling of jackaroo.

Words near jackeroo in the dictionary

  1. jackelope
  2. jackelopes
  3. Jackendoffian
  4. jacker
  5. jacker-off
  6. jackeroo
  7. jackerooed
  8. jackerooing
  9. jackeroos
  10. jackers
  11. jacket

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jackeroo (page history and authors); jackaroo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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