Sekirov Dictionary

roustabout

noun 1
verb 1
forms 3

noun1

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(US) An unskilled laborer, especially at an oilfield, at a circus or on a ship.
- Then Sísiphos in torment I beheld / being roustabout to a tremendous boulder. — 1961

verb1

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To work as a roustabout.
- When Jack is old and weatherbeat, / Too old to roustabout, / In some rum-shop they’ll let him stop, / At eight bells he’s turned out. — 1896

forms

roustabouted · roustabouting · roustabouts

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