noun
- a sheep
Usage: Australian slang
Examples
- The old swagman carried his jumbuck in his tucker bag.
- Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, under the shade of a coolibah tree, and he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled, ‘You’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me.’
- The farmer counted his jumbucks before heading back to the homestead.
- In the Australian bush, a jumbuck was a valuable possession for a traveling worker.
- The song mentions stealing a jumbuck and putting it in a tucker bag.