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- noun Plural form of
roughneck .
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Examples
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Wellsboro, business at In My Shoes is up 20 percent in the past year as the "roughnecks" have flocked to town from the gas fields of Texas and Wyoming.
buffalonews - Home 2010
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Kate waved sharply at one of her roughnecks, who was standing near the stairs.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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That's not bad, as he poses a striking image whether matching wits with the aristocracy or trading blows with roughnecks.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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That's not bad, as he poses a striking image whether matching wits with the aristocracy or trading blows with roughnecks.
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I had to travel around the world and talk to all sorts of people -- oilmen, warlords, politicians, economists, geologists, environmentalists, sheikhs, lobbyists, and roughnecks.
News Junkies 2010
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Kate waved sharply at one of her roughnecks, who was standing near the stairs.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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There was much anger at the roughnecks, but there was no doubt who the shared enemy was: Boris Johnson.
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But he led Texas from the age of cowboys and cotton farmers, roughnecks and Rangers, to the modern era of astronauts and engineers, high tech and telecom.
William Perry Clements: Lone-Star Giant Karl Rove 2011
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But he led Texas from the age of cowboys and cotton farmers, roughnecks and Rangers, to the modern era of astronauts and engineers, high tech and telecom.
William Perry Clements: Lone-Star Giant Karl Rove 2011
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Kate waved sharply at one of her roughnecks, who was standing near the stairs.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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