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roustabout noun- in oil drilling, an unskilled oil field worker US, 1948
- — Jerry Robertson, Oil Slanguage, p. 105, 1954
- a general assistant on a rural property AUSTRALIA, 1940
Variant of ROUSEABOUT- It had been Rufe’s first job after he left school, roustabout in this pub. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 164, 1969
- The roustabout looked at it, woebegone[.] — Bob Ellis and Anne Brooksbank, Mad Dog Morgan, p. 88, 1976
- I obtained a job as a roustabout with one of the smaller circuses[.] — Ward McNally, Supper at Happy Harry’s, p. 90, 1982
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