English

Noun

roughneck ‎(plural roughnecks)

1. Any labourer on an oil rig
2. A rowdy or uncouth person

See also

• roustabout, oil trash
• roughneck on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

roughneck ‎(third-person singular simple present roughnecks, present participle roughnecking, simple past and past participle roughnecked)

1. To work as a laborer on an oil rig
   • 2009, January 13, “Michael Brick”, in Racing's Last Frontier:

     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 […]