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rouseabout

rouseabout is the alternative form of roustabout.

Meaning of roustabout

Noun

roustabout (plural roustabouts)

  1. (US) An unskilled laborer, especially at an oilfield, at a circus or on a ship.
    • The U. is my own Alma Mater, and I am proud to be known as an alumni, but there are certain instructors there who seem to think we ought to turn the conduct of the nation over to hoboes and roustabouts.1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XIV, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC

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Forms of rouseabout

pluralrouseabouts

Words formed from rouseabout

Questions about rouseabout

What is rouseabout the alternative form of?
Rouseabout is the alternative form of roustabout.

Words near rouseabout in the dictionary

  1. Rousdon
  2. rouse
  3. Rouse Hill
  4. Rouse number
  5. Rouse numbers
  6. rouseabout
  7. rouseabouts
  8. roused
  9. rousedst
  10. rouseite
  11. rousement

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