Blacktracker

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An Aboriginal person employed by police to track down fugitives or lost people, especially in the bush. Australia, historical

    "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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From black + tracker. Compare blackfellow.

More for "blacktracker"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.