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rough•neck



Pronunciation: (ruf'nek"), [key]
—n.
1. a rough, coarse person; a tough.
2. any laborer working on an oil-drilling rig. Cf. roustabout (def. 4).

—v.i.
to work as a roughneck.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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