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roughneck

/ˈrʌfnɛk/

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. Wikipedia
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