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dockworker


dock·work·er

noun \-ˌwər-kər\

Definition of DOCKWORKER

: longshoreman
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Examples of DOCKWORKER

  1. <the dockworkers spent all afternoon taking crates off of the ship>

First Known Use of DOCKWORKER

1913

Related to DOCKWORKER

Synonyms: docker [chiefly British], dockhand, longshoreman, roustabout, rouster, stevedore

Rhymes with DOCKWORKER

caseworker, farmworker, field-worker, glassworker, guest worker, handworker, ironworker, networker, outworker, pieceworker, sex worker, steelworker, tearjerker, timeworker, wageworker, woodworker

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