[ UK /ɹˈa‍ʊstɐbˌa‍ʊt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor
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How To Use roustabout In A Sentence

  • Then it was the roustabout galop and the polka that were all the rage.
  • He was a roustabout, he herded sheep, he was a streetcar motorman.
  • But what I love the most: also included at the bottom of the list are the job titles "roustabout" and "stevedore," which I admit I had to Google. Boing Boing
  • To pay the bills, the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture graduate took a job as a North Sea roustabout, the labourer of the oil industry.
  • A roustabout is a dangerous job that typically pays about US$31,000 a year, with high unemployment and a negative outlook for growth, the study said. China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper
  • Morgan City is also home to "Mr. Charlie," a once cutting-edge offshore drilling rig that is now a training facility for would be roustabouts. Georgianne Nienaber: Why Should Anyone Care About Louisiana?
  • Of course, it must be remembered that along with such frivolous occupations I was trying to get work as wop, lumper, and roustabout. Chapter 25
  • The race quickly becomes a contest between Borghese's Italia and the Spyker, driven by a Dutch circus roustabout.
  • I hear, the boss took on two new roustabouts this morning to help with the canvas crew.
  • ROMANS: Look at the worst jobs, roustabout, which is for a worst job, it has the best name. CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2010
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