• Roughneck

    Origin

    rough + neck

    Full definition of roughneck

    Noun

    roughneck

    (plural roughnecks)
    1. Any labourer on an oil rig
    2. A rowdy or uncouth person

    Verb

    1. To work as a laborer on an oil rig
      • There was a time not long ago when this region appeared as some enduring mystification, its citizenry best known for roughnecking on the North Slope and devising harrowingly zany methods of chasing one another up and down the storied Iditarod Trail. ...
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