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Synonyms of roustabout
one who loads and unloads ships at a port
- sought work as a roustabout on the city's seedy waterfront
Synonyms for roustabout
- docker
- [chiefly British],
- dockhand,
- dockworker,
- longshoreman,
- rouster,
- stevedore
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The first known use of roustabout was in 1860
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