In the first three or four he was pretty crude; he was even defined as a roughneck somewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Eco chamber: Is your favorite crime series a closed text?] Reference
Mr. Cornett has already taken a demotion from a driller to a "roughneck" oilfield slang for a floorman at a much lower salary to maintain a steady paycheck. From Wordnik.com. [Drilling Rules Shake-Up Puts New Regulator in Spotlight] Reference
Mallick ridicules the entire Palin family calling husband Todd a "roughneck," son Track "terrified," and pregnant teenage daughter Bristol a "pramface," whatever that means. From Wordnik.com. [Heather Mallick, CBC Columnist, Latest Palin Basher] Reference
And, of course, the only person who can save us is a burly oil driller played by Bruce Willis and his team of fellow "roughneck" drillers including the ever-annoying Ben Affleck. From Wordnik.com. [FILMS: "Armageddon"... Not Quite Bust'in Up The Planet...] Reference
Idol's "roughneck" contestant, after all, has other things to think about these days. From Wordnik.com. [TV Envy] Reference
Michael Sarver: (Last week: No. 12) Laid-back '' roughneck '' faces an uphill battle. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
"roughneck," yet to have it put baldly into words by an enemy hurt her deeply, and she looked at herself in the glass half frightened. From Wordnik.com. [A Voice in the Wilderness] Reference
Obviously Locke was no common backwoods roughneck. From Wordnik.com. [Kate]
I can't stand for those roughneck cops, and Stodger as. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
You've got the roughneck, good old boys like Toby Keith. From Wordnik.com. [Brad Paisley Shifts Into Witty '5th Gear'] Reference
He saw the Super Six posing like some roughneck hockey team. From Wordnik.com. [The Season of the Machete]
Now 25, he is working as a roughneck in the Texas oil fields. From Wordnik.com. [To Be a Rockefeller] Reference
The Missouri, he's a roughneck, plunging at her with muddy hands. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
A roughneck with a philosophical bent, Tillman never followed convention. From Wordnik.com. [A Heroic Life] Reference
Basil Plumley Sam Elliott and the roughneck but reliable chopper pilot, Maj. From Wordnik.com. [We Were Soldiers] Reference
No work for a roughneck, 'specially one that can't read but his name, he gloomed. From Wordnik.com. [Burning Water]
"Not any that center on Texas roughneck ventriloquists with dead aliens for company.". From Wordnik.com. [Jed the Dead]
Old, derelict shacks and roughneck motels that dot the Yakima landscape are my afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [unbillable hours:] Reference
The museum emulates the 1901 roughneck town where the first oil gusher was found in modern Beaumont, Texas. From Wordnik.com. [Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum reopens] Reference
In 1966, John Braudaway was working as a roughneck trying to kill an out-of-control well spewing oil and gas. From Wordnik.com. [New Oil Patches Sprout Across Nation] Reference
I could be a hod carrier, a coal miner, a roughneck on an offshore oil rig-anything would be easier than this. From Wordnik.com. [The Phillies' Mr. Start-Me-Up] Reference
Chaine sagged against the roughneck, then looked over his shoulder as the man dragged him toward the infirmary. From Wordnik.com. [City of Baraboo]
Former wrestling champion Bill Goldberg guest-stars as Cupid, a roughneck who tears the SVU headquarters apart. From Wordnik.com. [NBC SWEETENS FEBRUARY WITH 28 DAYS OF COMEDY, DRAMA, GAMESMANSHIP, VALENTINES — AND AN ARRAY OF GUEST STARS | the TV addict] Reference
But the company's roughneck and military clientele belies its much larger potential market: professional parents. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: March 16, 2003 - March 22, 2003 Archives] Reference
Those who thought of Jason Bradley as a tough, no-nonsense roughneck would have been surprised at his next action. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost from the Grand Banks]
Behind all this a poor old roughneck that was breaking his heart trying to do the right thing in a miserable spot. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Trouble Is My Business - Raymond Chandler] Reference
He insisted on playing Ben not as a roughneck trucker but as a proud man who had stolen a pickup to escape the zombies. From Wordnik.com. [The Horror Movie] Reference
BUENOS AIRES -- For years, the roughneck fans of the Huracán soccer club often put on more of a show than the players did. From Wordnik.com. [In Fútbol-Mad Argentina, Ms. Rubeo] Reference
Working as a roughneck during the summers, he attended the University of Kansas intending to major in petroleum engineering. From Wordnik.com. [Daredevil in Cockpit, Boardroom] Reference
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