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sandhog
noun
a tunnel construction worker; any underground worker US, 1903- I’m a sand hog. I had a job in the sewers up in Duluth after the war ended[.] — Max Shulman, The Zebra Derby, p. 39, 1946
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 267, 1946
- George “Bama” Lewis, seventy-year-old ex-con man, with his jaws inflated with candied yams, jabbed his fork toward a large painting of slain council member Darrel “The Mole” Miller, in sandhog clothing[.] — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Death Wish, pp. 82–83, 1977
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