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roughneck definition

☆ rough·neck (-nek′)

noun

  1. Informal a rough, crude person, esp. one who is quarrelsome and disorderly; rowdy
  2. 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

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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