(chiefly, US) An unskilled laborer, especially at an oilfield, at a circus or on a ship.
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(intransitive) To work as a roustabout.
When Jack is old and weatherbeat, / Too old to roustabout, / In some rum-shop they’ll let him stop, / At eight bells he’s turned out.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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