Usually means: Unskilled laborer, often in oilfields.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. roustabout: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. roustabout: Merriam-Webster
  3. roustabout: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. roustabout: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. roustabout: Collins English Dictionary
  6. roustabout: Vocabulary.com
  7. Roustabout, roustabout: Wordnik
  8. roustabout: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. roustabout: Wiktionary
  10. roustabout: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. roustabout: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. roustabout: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Roustabout, roustabout: Dictionary.com
  14. Roustabout (album), Roustabout (disambiguation), Roustabout (film), Roustabout (soundtrack), Roustabout: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Roustabout: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. roustabout: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. roustabout: Rhymezone
  18. Roustabout: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. roustabout: FreeDictionary.org
  20. roustabout: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. roustabout: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. roustabout: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  (chiefly US) An unskilled laborer, especially at an oilfield, at a circus or on a ship.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To work as a roustabout.

Similar:
deckhand, rouseabout, rouser, ruffneck, roughscuff, rumhound, roughneck, oily rag, rounder, rube, more...

Opposite:
sedentary, settled, stable, steady, calm

Adjectives:
general, circus, old, young, colored, low, former, worst, burly, little, humblest

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     rust,     burgundy,     maroon, more...



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Similar:
deckhand, rouseabout, rouser, ruffneck, roughscuff, rumhound, roughneck, oily rag, rounder, rube, more...

Opposite:
sedentary, settled, stable, steady, calm

Adjectives:
general, circus, old, young, colored, low, former, worst, burly, little, humblest

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     rust,     burgundy,     maroon, more...



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