noun
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Someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person.
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An ironworker; a dirty or low-paid worker, a labourer.
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A labourer on an oil rig.
Examples of roughnecks in a Sentence
Rowing home, Dum had to fight off some local roughnecks.
Most roughnecks work long hours and the job is physically demanding.
Roughnecks help to handle the transporting of drilling and servicing rigs as well.
Roughnecks handle the cleanup of the drill rig area, but when the rig is operational and when it is not operational, such as when it is tore down or initially set up.
Roughnecks must maintain tools, move them and in some cases use them as needed.
Even so, she wasn't going to last long among the roughnecks in his camp if she didn't toughen up a little.