Sekirov Dictionary

roughneck

/ˈɹʌfˌnɛk/

noun 3
verb 1
forms 3

noun3

•
A labourer on an oil rig or in the oilpatch, either skilled or semiskilled.
- As for the minerals, there has been a good deal of drilling along the big river; trucks and roughnecks no longer garner any notice. — 2013
(informal, old-fashioned) A dirty or low-paid worker, a labourer; an ironworker in an ironworks or a steelworker in a steelworks.
•
(US, informal) Someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person.
- LaTisha has long wanted to show Carole sheʼs not the roughneck she used to be, the roughneck who wasnʼt good enough to be her friend. — 2019

verb1

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To work as a laborer on an oil rig.
- There was a time not long ago when this region appeared as some enduring mystification, its citizenry best known for roughnecking on the North Slope […] — 2009

forms

roughnecked · roughnecking · roughnecks

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