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roughneck

[ US /ˈɹəfˌnɛk/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈʌfnɛk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a cruel and brutal fellow

How To Use roughneck In A Sentence

  • The power in Corb's songs is his ability to bring his world of roughnecks and steer roping to life on the stage.
  • He gave two-thirds of full-time employees - everyone from top management to roughnecks working on oil rigs - Net-linked laptops.
  • I was looking at an elegant young roughneck , a year or two over thirty.
  • By the time she was fifteen she was living on her own, managing a roughneck joint with a double-barrelled shotgun by her side.
  • Folk who were in the jungle five years ago, they're working on the rigs now, roughnecking - think of that for a new beginning!
  • When he went there, Chesebrough noticed that roughnecks who worked the rigs were maddened by a gelatinous black gunk that clogged up their drills.
  • Spent some time being a roughneck in the fields up around Buffalo.
  • John finds this richly ironic, because he knows that Pharisees and Sadducees would be united in their "citified" contempt of him, because he's a roughneck who doesn't "dress properly," and everyone in Jerusalem surely knows it. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • A stream of complaints to Bloomsbury House led to the sacking of the more objectionable roughnecks.
  • The simple graphic, though it may perpetuate the hopes and expectations of unemployed roughnecks and roustabouts, masks a more complex story.
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