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Synonyms for roustabout

  • noun

Most common

deck hand roughneck rouster

All synonyms

Noun

deck hand, laborer US, labourer UK, rouser AU, roughneck, ruffneck US, rousie informal AU NZ, rouster

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    An unskilled laborer, especially at an oilfield, at a circus or on a ship.

    See also quotations under rouseabout.

Related words

Other spellings
rouseabout AU

Forms

Plural
roustabouts → laborers, rousers, roughnecks, rousies…

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
roustaboutfalling
roughnecksteady
roustersteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

6 letters
rouser2, rousie
7 letters
laborer3, rouster
8 letters
labourer, ruffneck
9 letters
roughneck2

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (rouser2 = 2 syllables).