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cockatoo
noun- a person acting as lookout, especially for an illegal activity AUSTRALIA, 1827
Flocks of feeding cockatoos often have one or more birds posted up high as sentries to warn of approaching danger. - [H]e drifted along Sussex Street and asked one of the cockatoos for a match to light his cigarette. — Vince Kelly, The Bogeyman, p. 9, 1956
- — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 16, 1989
- This time they had brought along two extra players to act as ”cockatoos[.]” — William Dodson, The Sharp End, p. 158, 2001
- a small-scale farmer AUSTRALIA, 1845
- — A.B. Paterson, Rio Grande and Other Verses, p. 46, 1902
- The Delahuntys were not bad employers as Australian cockatoos went in the hungry thirties; but they were nearly as poor as the men they exploited. — Frank Hardy, Legends From Benson’s Valley, p. 232, 1963
- — Bill Hornadge, The Ugly Australian, p. 39, 1975
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