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- DictionaryRough·neck/ˈrəfˌnek/
noun
- 1. a rough and uncouth person: "the usual roughnecks and gangsters"
- 2. an oil rig worker.
verb
- 1. work on an oil rig: "he gave up college to roughneck on wells in west Texas"
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- Roughneck
Term used as reference for blue-collar workers specially in the oil industry
Roughneck is a term for a person whose occupation is hard manual labor. The term applies across a number of industries, but is most commonly associated with the workers on a drilling rig. The ideal of the hard-working, tough roughneck has been adopted by several sports teams who use the phrase as part of their name or logo. Originally the term was used in the traveling carnivals of 19th-century Un... Wikipedia
