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one who loads and unloads ships at a port
sought work as a roustabout on the city's seedy waterfront
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Recent Examples of roustabout
His young mother, Beatrice, had married an engineer and roustabout named Horace Seidner who turned out not to be the family type.
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Penelope Green, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
Cox would work his way up from a roustabout and roughneck to eventually leading an oil and gas company as well as other notable businesses.
—Dallas News, 7 Nov. 2020
The shale patch was the Wild West reborn, featuring poker games with $1000 buy-ins, boisterous strip clubs packed with roustabouts and brawling in the muddy streets illuminated by columns of flaring gas.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2020
The Showmen's League Of America commemorates the 1918 Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train disaster which killed 86 circus performers and roustabouts and injured 127, at Showman's Rest in Wood Lawn Cemetery in Forest Park, Ill., on Thursday, May 5, 2018.
—Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2020
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Penelope Green, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
Cox would work his way up from a roustabout and roughneck to eventually leading an oil and gas company as well as other notable businesses.
—Dallas News, 7 Nov. 2020
The shale patch was the Wild West reborn, featuring poker games with $1000 buy-ins, boisterous strip clubs packed with roustabouts and brawling in the muddy streets illuminated by columns of flaring gas.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2020
The Showmen's League Of America commemorates the 1918 Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train disaster which killed 86 circus performers and roustabouts and injured 127, at Showman's Rest in Wood Lawn Cemetery in Forest Park, Ill., on Thursday, May 5, 2018.
—Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roustabout
Noun
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America dodged a sledgehammer on Thursday night, when striking stevedores reached a tentative agreement to return to work.Dan Primack, Axios, 4 Oct. 2024
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What do port workers do? Longshoremen, also referred to as stevedores, handle cargo from incoming ships.Reuters, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2024
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Background players in period costume — an ill-fitting brown suit, a longshoreman’s jacket (no berets, thankfully) — walked back and forth holding a briefcase, a cigarette and a shopping bag (no baguettes, thankfully).Brett Berk, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
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Daggett was one of those longshoremen at that time who traveled to the West Coast.Lori Ann LaRocco, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
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These operations provide tens of thousands of jobs to dockworkers, truck drivers and other laborers who help move this cargo.Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
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Read on to learn about what dockworkers do and how new technologies are changing the job.Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2024
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“Roustabout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roustabout. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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