"blacktracker" meaning in English

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        "2": "black",
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  "etymology_text": "From black + tracker. Compare blackfellow.",
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    {
      "form": "blacktrackers",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Australian English",
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          "ref": "1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 236:",
          "text": "At dawn the next day he was away to the Mountain, and with a black-tracker at his heels, explored as much of that wilderness of gully and chasm as nature permitted to him.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Richard Flanagan, Question 7, Knopf, page 230:",
          "text": "[N]o one is exempt from the guilt: for we as Aboriginal people were our own blacktracker hunting down Musquito who had in turn hunted down others.",
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        "An Aboriginal person employed by police to track down fugitives or lost people, especially in the bush."
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          "Aboriginal",
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          "fugitive",
          "fugitive"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, now historical) An Aboriginal person employed by police to track down fugitives or lost people, especially in the bush."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "black tracker"
        },
        {
          "word": "black-tracker"
        }
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        "Australia",
        "historical"
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  "word": "blacktracker"
}

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    {
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        "2": "black",
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      "expansion": "black + tracker",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From black + tracker. Compare blackfellow.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blacktrackers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 236:",
          "text": "At dawn the next day he was away to the Mountain, and with a black-tracker at his heels, explored as much of that wilderness of gully and chasm as nature permitted to him.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Richard Flanagan, Question 7, Knopf, page 230:",
          "text": "[N]o one is exempt from the guilt: for we as Aboriginal people were our own blacktracker hunting down Musquito who had in turn hunted down others.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An Aboriginal person employed by police to track down fugitives or lost people, especially in the bush."
      ],
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          "Aboriginal",
          "Aboriginal"
        ],
        [
          "fugitive",
          "fugitive"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, now historical) An Aboriginal person employed by police to track down fugitives or lost people, especially in the bush."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "historical"
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "black tracker"
    },
    {
      "word": "black-tracker"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blacktracker"
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