You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.
Obscure. Possibly from an Aboriginal term meaning ‘wandering white man’.
jackaroo (plural jackaroos)
(Australia, Queensland, obsolete) A white man living outside of a white settlement.
(Australia) 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.
• jackarooesse
• jillaroo (“female jackaroo”)
• jilleroo
jackaroo (third-person singular simple present jackaroos, present participle jackarooing, simple past and past participle jackarooed)
(intransitive) To work as a jackaroo.
Source: Wiktionary
Jack`a*roo", n. Also Jack`e*roo". [Jack + kangaroo.]
Definition: A young man living as an apprentice on a sheep station, or otherwise engaged in acquainting himself with colonial life. [Colloq., Australia]
Jack`a*roo", v. i.
Definition: To be a jackaroo; to pass one's time as a jackaroo. [Colloq., Australia]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.