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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for roustabout:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

roustabout
    n 1: a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor [syn:
         deckhand, roustabout]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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]

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