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roughneck noun- a thug, a lout, a rowdy person US, 1836
- I want him to be a gentleman of sorts, not a rough-neck. — Geoff Brown, I Want What I Want, p. 164, 1966
- Clubs seem to get a honeymoon period, but then a bunch of roughnecks attach themselves to the night and it goes downhill from there. — Dave Haslam, Dear Colin, p. 151, 1999
- in oil drilling, a skilled oil field worker US
- — Jerry Robertson, Oil Slanguage, p. 105, 1954
- on the railways, a brakeman on a goods train US
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 267, 1946
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