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Nor is there any drama or inspiration for anyone outside the roughneck community.
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Beyond the physicality of the role, we never gain much insight into this roughneck.
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In its early moments, it features some good, roughneck, on-field shenanigans.
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Aloof and abrasive, the roughneck drank nights off at the Kirkwood Inn.
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Belmondo loved to cultivate the idea that he was the roughneck with the sensitive side.
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The roughneck who became an attorney died on Sunday at the age of 93.
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The whole thing had the feel of a parent making two roughneck kids shake hands after a fight.
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Even the film's overt villain, Ariel's roughneck boyfriend, has reasons for his brutish behavior.
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Is it his roughneck rival at May Fortune cosmetics, Jack Kruschen?
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- Bully: a cruel and brutal fellow
- Roughneck (or ruffneck) is a slang term for an unskilled or slightly-skilled labourer. The term applies across a number of industries, but is most commonly associated with oil rigs. ...
- (Roughnecks (TV series)) Roughnecks was a BBC television series that ran over two series between 1994 and 1995 on BBC One. The show centred on the working and personal lives of those who worked on oil rigs in the North Sea.
- Any labourer on an oil rig; A rowdy or uncouth person; To work as a laborer on an oil rig
- Drill crew members who work on the derrick floor, screwing together the sections of drillpipe when running or pulling a drillstring
- A floor hand in an oil-drilling operation. These workers used to have a reputation for rowdiness.
- Can refer to anyone on the rig other than the driller. A Roughneck's duties include general tasks involved with connecting or disconnecting pipe. It's also a really cool thing to put on your Facebook page.
- Any member of an oilrig crew other than the driller.
- Workers who maintain and operate a drill rig; usually unskilled or semi-skilled manual laborers with salaries ranging from $27,000 to $54,000. They usually work 12-hour shifts, and can be away from home for as many as six months at a time.
