kangarooer

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English

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Etymology

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kangaroo +‎ -er

Noun

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kangarooer (plural kangarooers)

  1. 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.