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An unskilled laborer, especially at an oilfield, at a circus or on a ship.US
- See also quotations under rouseabout.
roustabout
'raustә.baut4 senses · 258 ms
Level C2
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To work as a roustabout.intransitive
- When Jack is old and weatherbeat, / Too old to roustabout, / In some rum-shop they’ll let him stop, / At eight bells he’s turned out.
- I was due to bust through that cellar door here to-night, so I hurried the rest of the way up the river, roustabouting on a lower coast packet that made a landing for every fisherman that wanted a plug of tobacco.