jackaroo

A new chum; a new arrival from England in the bush.

To learn one’s business by bush-farming: said of an inexperienced greenhorn in Australia who assumes the position and duties of a jackaroo before taking up a station of his own. See jackaroo, n.

To be a jackaroo; to pass one’s time as a jackaroo.

A young man living as an apprentice on a sheep station, or otherwise engaged in acquainting himself with colonial life.

A white man living outside white settlement.

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.

To work as a jackaroo.