roughnecking

Variant of roughneck

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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