rough-neck

He was described as a bully, a hoodlum, a rough-neck, a professional slugger whose presence in the ranks was a disgrace to organized labor.

CHAPTER XIV 2010

"He's a rough-neck sailor, and he's got a quick, bad temper."

LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

And, say, while you're about it, tell us what happened to the Lady Om when that rough-neck husband of hers choked the old geezer and croaked.

Chapter 16 2010

I visited Prudhoe Bay when it was still a test well and a 'rough-neck' dropped a chunk of clathrate straight from a core into my palm – it flashed into smelly steam and methane with a whoosh.

Scientist Discusses Latest Report of Rising Global Temperatures | Universe Today 2010

In walks rugged Tommy Gyleenhaal, a rough-neck recently incarcerated loser, who decides to change both their lives for the better.

SLACKERJACK – Music Brothers 2010

I often wonder how something so beautiful as a bleeding heart can grow in my rough prairie climate, but it's a proven rough-neck!

Out in the garden... Gumbo Lily 2009

Zebari, 53, is equal parts charm and muscle, at ease hobnobbing with global leaders in the Swiss ski resort of Davos or navigating the rough-neck politics in Iraq.

Man in the Middle 2007

Precisely at that point it vanished — and I was looking at an elegant young rough-neck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd.

The Great Gatsby 2003

That short, pithy epithet that connotes “rough-neck” in the Old West was his.

General Ike John S.D. Eisenhower 2003

No, no, little girl, not all your airs, not all my big jobs, can make me more than a half-taught rough-neck -- a success, I'll admit.

The Return of Blue Pete Luke Allan