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roughneck
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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
Related Forms:
- roughnecking noun
See roughneck in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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