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roustabout |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Roustabout \Roust"a*bout`\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like in an opprobrious sense a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs. [Western U.S.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: roustabout n : a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor [syn: {deckhand}]
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