roughneck
a rough, coarse person; a tough.
any laborer working on an oil-drilling rig.: Compare roustabout (def. 4).
to work as a roughneck.
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How to use roughneck in a sentence
McConaughey plays Ron Woodroof, a boozey roughneck who is given 30 days to live after being diagnosed with AIDS.
I wanted to kill the enemy and be a roughneck and cuss and spit tobacco, come home and do it again.
‘Hell And Back Again’: PBS Airs Documentary On Wounded Marine | Jesse Ellison | May 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd some of these roughneck humourists will congratulate us on golf becoming one of the vital, red-blooded sports!
Fore! | Charles Emmett Van Loan"You know, Miss Shaw, this isn't just the roughneck's scorn for the egghead," Travis said.
Oomphel in the Sky | Henry Beam PiperWill you try and see if you can't think of me as something more than just a dollar-chasing roughneck?
Main Street | Sinclair Lewis
He could almost hear passersby say "goody-good" and "roughneck."
A Boy Knight | Martin J. (Martin Jerome) ScottI copped it on the high seas—flotsam and jetsam,' says the 'roughneck.'
British Dictionary definitions for roughneck
/ (ˈrʌfˌnɛk) /
a rough or violent person; thug
a worker in an oil-drilling operation
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