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- Dictionaryroughneck/ˈrʌfnɛk/
noun
- 1. a rough and uncouth person: "the usual roughnecks and gangsters"
- 2. an oil rig worker.
verb
- 1. work on an oil rig: "he gave up college to roughneck on wells in west Texas"
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Roughneck is a noun that can mean a worker on an oil rig or a rough and rude person, mainly in US and Australian English. Learn more about the word, its pronunciation and translations, and see examples from various sources.
- English (US)
ROUGHNECK meaning: 1. a worker on an oil rig (= a large...
- Znaczenie Roughneck, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary
roughneck definicja: 1. a worker on an oil rig (= a large...
- Roughneck in Traditional Chinese
ROUGHNECK translate: 石油鑽井工,油井工人, (通常指男性)粗魯的人,粗暴的人. Learn...
- Cambridge English Dictionary에서의 의미
roughneck 의미, 정의, roughneck의 정의: 1. a worker on an oil rig...
- Roughneck in Simplified Chinese
ROUGHNECK translate: 石油钻井工,油井工人, (通常指男性)粗鲁的人,粗暴的人. Learn...
- Roughhoused
roughhoused definition: 1. past simple and past participle...
- English (US)
A roughneck is a rough or uncouth person, a rowdy, tough worker of an oil-well-drilling crew, or an adjective for something suitable for such a person. Learn more about the word history, synonyms, examples, and usage of roughneck.
A roughneck is a troublemaker who gets in a lot of fights and doesn’t have good manners. Roughnecks are also men who work at dangerous, grueling hard-labor jobs. Maybe that’s why they’re so mad.
Roughneck definition: a rough, coarse person; a tough.. See examples of ROUGHNECK used in a sentence.
Roughneck is a noun that can mean a worker on an oil rig or a rough and rude person, mainly in US and Australian English. Learn more about the word, its pronunciation, and its usage in sentences from various sources.
A roughneck is someone who operates an oil well or is a rough, crude person. Learn more about the word origin, synonyms, pronunciation, and examples of roughneck in different contexts.
Definition of roughneck noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.