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Meaning of 'roustabout' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Roustabout [ n.]
- A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs.

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