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roustabout
[ roust-uh-bout ]
noun
- a wharf laborer or deck hand, as on the Mississippi River.
- an unskilled laborer who lives by odd jobs.
- a circus laborer who helps in setting up and taking down the tents and in caring for the animals, equipment, and grounds.
- any unskilled laborer working in an oil field. Compare roughneck ( def 2 ).
roustabout
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noun
- an unskilled labourer on an oil rig
- another word for rouseabout
- a labourer in a circus or fairground
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of roustabout1
Example Sentences
It was a roustabout settlement with three stores, a blacksmithy, a boarding house, a half-dozen saloons, gambling hells and dance halls.
But the roustabout Hal’s dawning maturity costs him the companion he once held dear.
I spoke to prison guards who patrolled the wards of violent penitentiaries, undocumented immigrants who toiled on the “kill floors†of industrial slaughterhouses and roustabouts who worked on offshore rigs in the fossil-fuel industry.
As a former construction worker, he had the foundation, with some additional training, to begin working as a roustabout, assembling and repairing equipment in the offshore oil industry two years ago.
His character is a janitor and general roustabout, angling for a spot in the show.
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