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roustabout

/roust-uh-bout/US // ˈraʊst əˌbaʊt //UK // (ˈraʊstəˌbaʊt) //

小贩,小船夫,小偷,小船

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a wharf laborer or deck hand, as on the Mississippi River.
    • : an unskilled laborer who lives by odd jobs.
    • : a circus laborer who helps in setting up and taking down the tents and in caring for the animals, equipment, and grounds.
    • : any unskilled laborer working in an oil field.Compare roughneck.

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Examples

  • The state contends he hired Joe Gentz, 50, a local roustabout, to kill his wife of 26 years.

  • Conservatives, notably Rush Limbaugh, leapt on CBS today to complain that late night would now be an overtly left-wing roustabout.

  • More likely to be a stowaway on a merchantman and then roustabout on a cattle boat, or some such thing.

  • Burris is always yelling about not getting enough overtime work, but you know how it is: he's just a roustabout, a common laborer.

  • A razor-back, or tent roustabout, struck Johnny on the head with a tent stake.

  • I was housemaid and roustabout from sunrise to weary sunset.

  • Then Kearny leaped to his feet and wrung my hand with the strength of a roustabout.