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.
Verb
To work as a jackaroo.
Origin
Obscure. Possibly from an Aboriginal term meaning ‘wandering white man’.
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