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1. (n.) roustabout
a wharf laborer or deck hand.
2. roustabout
a circus laborer who helps to set up tents, care for the animals, etc.
3. roustabout
any unskilled laborer, esp. one working in an oil field.
Etymology: (1865–70)
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1. (noun) deckhand, roustabout
a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor
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1. (noun) roustabout
a laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs
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