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Jackerooing

[jak-uh-roo]

jack·e·roo

[jak-uh-roo] noun, plural -roos, verb, -rooed, -roo·ing. Australian.
noun
1.
an inexperienced person working as an apprentice on a sheep ranch.
verb (used without object)
2.
to work as an apprentice on a sheep ranch.

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Jackerooing is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Also, jackaroo.


Origin:
1875–80; jack1 + (kang)aroo; compare -eroo
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