roughneck

roughneck Definition

☆ rough·neck (-nek′)

noun

Informal a rough, crude person, esp. one who is quarrelsome and disorderly; rowdy
a worker on an oil drilling rig, esp. a member of the crew which feeds pipe into the well

intransitive verb

to work as a roughneck

roughneck Related Forms

rough·neck′·ing noun

roughneck Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

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