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Barcoo sicknessnoun [mass noun] Australian informalIllness marked by attacks of vomiting: he hasn’t been long enough in the outback to have contracted the Barcoo sickness...- There is a complaint, from which those long resident in the distant bush frequently suffer severely, the Barcoo Sickness.
- It was not a household fly, but the small, sticky sort that bushmen blame for Barcoo Rot and Barcoo Sickness.
- A common illness among shearers was "Barcoo sickness".
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