Definition of roustabout Roustabout

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We found 4 definitions of roustabout from 4 different sources.

What does roustabout mean?

Noun
roustabout - a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor
		deckhand

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roustabout (Noun)
An unskilled laborer, especially at an oilfield, at a circus or on a ship.

roustabout (n.)
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.

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roustabout in sign language