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roo
noun- a kangaroo AUSTRALIA, 1898
By front clipping. - — Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, p. 80, 1947
- Eh! Dick, John here reckons he wants to have a go at a ‘roo with a knife. Will we let him? — Kenneth Cook, Wake in Fright, p. 91, 1961
- — Jean Brooks, The Opal Witch, p. 136, 1967
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 77, 1977
- an apprentice station hand working on, and learning how to manage, a cattle or sheep station AUSTRALIA, 1891
An abbreviation of “jackaroo”. - Every night after Ruby had finished her two-hour watch she would try to waken this roo, but to no avail[.] — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 53, 1994
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