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roughneck

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹʌfˌnɛk/Part of speech nounSorted ceghknoruStarts with REnds with K0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a cruel and brutal fellow

Word origin

From rough + neck, originally "someone who works a manual labour job".

Used in a sentence

  • As for the minerals, there has been a good deal of drilling along the big river; trucks and roughnecks no longer garner any notice.
  • LaTisha has long wanted to show Carole sheʼs not the roughneck she used to be, the roughneck who wasnʼt good enough to be her friend.
  • There was a time not long ago when this region appeared as some enduring mystification, its citizenry best known for roughnecking on the North Slope […]

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