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What does jumping the rattler mean?
Great Depression in Australia
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With unemployment at a high during the Great Depression in Australia, many men would hitch a free ride on goods trains that would take them into the bush to seek work. As a train came to a bend and slowed down, groups of unemployed men would chase after it and try to jump on. This was termed "jumping the rattler".