roadie
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of roadie
1965–70; road (from the idiom on the road ) + -ie; analogous to groupie
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As the roadie puts it in “Wayne’s World 2,” “Keith cannot be killed by conventional weapons.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
"The mirror on the wall was out of my flat," Cannon says, "but all of those little bits including the inflatable globe came from recording engineer Mark Coyle and roadie Phil Smith's house."
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2024
They were there to hear from Shaul Magid, 65, whose long, thin white beard and shaved head made him look more like a roadie than a rabbi.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
A machine-learning neural network dubbed MAL in homage to the Beatles’ beloved roadie Mal Evans, the technology provides the capability for separating audio tracks into their component parts.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2023
If Gene Johnson were to put on a black leather jacket, he could pass for a roadie with the Grateful Dead.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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