kangarooer
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]kangarooer (plural kangarooers)
- One who hunts kangaroos.
- 1894, Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia, page 130:
- Blacks are employed hunting the rabbits; and all kangarooers desirous of permission to shoot over this run in the coming season have to pay 100 rabbit scalps for the privilege.
- 1987, Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding, page 127:
- Earlier absconders from Sydney and Parramatta had died because they were not armed, but not these kangarooers.