noun. An uncouth person.

noun. A rowdy.

noun. A member of the crew of an oil rig other than the driller.

noun. See the extract.

noun. Any labourer on an oil rig

noun. A rowdy or uncouth person

verb. To work as a laborer on an oil rig

noun. a cruel and brutal fellow

"The name roughneck, which crews tend to embrace as a badge of honor, reflects the demanding and sometimes risky work that sustains them, and the cowboy mystique they bring from their hometowns in the South and West."

roustabout  

aggressor  assailant  assaulter  attacker  

bullyboy  muscle  muscleman  plug-ugly  skinhead  

androgen  andwhite  asthenopia  bell rope  bloodsucker  

Babbitt  Philistine  arriviste  boor  boorish  

roughnecks