'Roustabout' definitions:
Definition of 'roustabout'
(from WordNet)
noun
A member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor [syn: deckhand, roustabout]
Definition of 'Roustabout'
From: GCIDE
- Roustabout \Roust"a*bout`\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] 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. [Western U.S.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'roustabout'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bakehead,
- black gang,
- blue-collar worker,
- boilerman,
- breadwinner,
- bungs,
- cabin boy,
- casual,
- casual laborer,
- chips,
- commissary steward,
- common laborer,
- complement,
- day laborer,
- deckhand,
- deckie,
- docker,
- dockhand,
- employee,
- factory worker,
- fireman,
- flunky,
- free lance,
- free-lancer,
- full-time worker,
- gun loader,
- gunner,
- hand,
- hospital steward,
- industrial worker,
- jobber,
- jobholder,
- laborer,
- laboring man,
- landing signalman,
- loader,
- longshoreman,
- mail orderly,
- menial,
- migrant,
- moiler,
- navigator,
- navvy,
- office temporary,
- oiler,
- operative,
- proletarian,
- purser,
- radio operator,
- salaried worker,
- self-employed person,
- servant,
- snip,
- snips,
- sparks,
- stevedore,
- steward,
- stewardess,
- stiff,
- stoker,
- temporary,
- toiler,
- torpedoman,
- wage earner,
- wage slave,
- wageworker,
- watch,
- wharf hand,
- worker,
- workgirl,
- workhand,
- working girl,
- workingman,
- workingwoman,
- workman,
- yeoman