blacktracker
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From black + tracker. Compare blackfellow.
Noun
blacktracker (plural blacktrackers)
- (Australia, now historical) An Aboriginal person employed by police to track down fugitives or lost people, especially in the bush.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 236:
- 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.
- 2023, Richard Flanagan, Question 7, Knopf, page 230:
- 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.