blacktracker
Noun
An Aboriginal person employed by police to track down fugitives or lost people, especially in the bush.
Usage- Australia
- Historical
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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.
[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.
Word forms
blacktrackersblack trackerblack-tracker