Roustabout
English Meaning
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.
- A laborer employed for temporary or unskilled jobs, as in an oil field.
- A circus laborer.
- A deck or wharf laborer, especially on the Mississippi River.