Usually means: Oil rig worker; physically demanding job.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word roughneck:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. roughneck: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. roughneck: Merriam-Webster
  3. roughneck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. roughneck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. roughneck: Collins English Dictionary
  6. roughneck: Vocabulary.com
  7. Roughneck, roughneck: Wordnik
  8. roughneck: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. roughneck: Wiktionary
  10. roughneck: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. roughneck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. roughneck: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. roughneck: Dictionary.com
  14. Roughneck, The Roughneck: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. roughneck: Rhymezone
  16. roughneck: FreeDictionary.org
  17. roughneck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Roughneck: The Word Detective
  19. roughneck: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. roughneck: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. roughneck, roughneck: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Roughneck: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (colloquial, chiefly US) Someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person.
▸ noun:  (colloquial, chiefly US) An ironworker; a dirty or low-paid worker, a labourer.
▸ noun:  (colloquial, chiefly US) A labourer on an oil rig.
▸ verb:  To work as a laborer on an oil rig.

Similar:
ruffian, rowdy, hooligan, yobbo, bully, tough, yobo, yob, ruffneck, rough, more...

Opposite:
gentleman, lady, man, woman

Adjectives:
young, little, old, elegant, big, such, real, regular, ignorant, incorrigible, chasing



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Similar:
ruffian, rowdy, hooligan, yobbo, bully, tough, yobo, yob, ruffneck, rough, more...

Opposite:
gentleman, lady, man, woman

Adjectives:
young, little, old, elegant, big, such, real, regular, ignorant, incorrigible, chasing



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