roughneck in the PONS Dictionary

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This is the primary work location for roughnecks and the driller.
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The objective of the show is to make the transformation from a roughneck to a sophisticated gentleman within the given time.
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The roughnecks, as they are called on the rig, endure exhausting and dangerous work demands.
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On more than one occasion, the bailiff would be forced to clear the courtroom in the roughneck manner of a nightclub bouncer.
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He joined his father as a pipeliner and roughneck in the oil and gas fields.
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After that he worked on farms, as a roughneck and later as an insurance broker.
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This is also derogatory insult among roughnecks.
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During this period he worked as a farm hand, salesman, cowboy, a roughneck on oil rigs, and as a maritime seaman.
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Although a dynamic communicator, his unconventional delivery, born out of an oilfield roughneck upbringing, made him an ill fit for the traditional pastorate.
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This romantic melodrama tells the story of a roughneck pilot and a pampered heiress who survive a plane crash.
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