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noun
- (context, AU, obsolete) A woman jackaroo. (Today the term jillaroo is usual.)
- 1910: These, and a big bucket-handled frying-pan and a few rusty convict-time arms on the slab walls, were mostly to amuse jackaroos and jackarooesses, and let them think they were getting into the Australian-dontcherknow at last. — w:Henry Lawson, Henry Lawson story The Exciseman, published in The Rising of the Court and Other Sketches in Prose and Verse (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7447 at Project Gutenberg).
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