roustabouts

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roustabout
an unskilled laborer, especially at an oilfield, at a circus or on a ship
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{i} unskilled laborer, person who earns a living through manual labor and/or odd jobs; longshoreman; deckhand; circus worker who assembles and disassemble tents and takes care of the animals and equipment
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a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor
roustabout
A roustabout is a unskilled worker, especially one who works in a port or at an oil well. a man who does work for which he needs to be strong but not skilled, especially in a port, an oilfield, or a circus
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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