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What (who) is roustabout - definition
WORKER WITH BROAD-BASED, NON-SPECIFIC SKILLS
Rouseabout
roustabout
(roustabouts)
A roustabout is a unskilled worker, especially one who works in a port or at an oil well. (AM)
N-COUNT
Roustabout
·noun 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.
roustabout
['ra?st?ba?t]
¦ noun an unskilled or casual labourer, especially one on an oil rig.
Origin
C19: from roust.
Wikipedia
Roustabout
Roustabout (Australia/New Zealand English: rouseabout) is an occupational term. Traditionally, it referred to a worker with broad-based, non-specific skills. In particular, it was used to describe show or circus workers who handled materials for construction on fairgrounds. In modern times it is applied to rural employment, such as those assisting sheep shearing, and positions in the oil industry.
Examples of use of roustabout
1. And that is where the support of Alan Parker, a former oil rig roustabout and rock band manager, promises to be invaluable.
2. He was once a famous London roustabout but now he has a wife, a child and a suit from Holland and Holland.
3. Never spread it about like marmalade." Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, more renowned for her steely personality than her roustabout humor, was the highest ranked woman in the poll, taking 12th place.