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sandhog
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sandhog is the slang term given to urban miners , construction workers who work underground on a variety of excavation projects in New York City . Generally these projects involve tunneling , caisson excavation, road building, or some other type of underground ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (context slang English) a person employed to dig tunnels. n. (context slang English) a person employed to dig tunnels.
Usage examples of sandhog.
Irma or the whiskey, but he felt as happy as an Altairean sandhog in rut.
And with one well-placed bomb, the top British sandhog and his superior were eliminated from the region.
The life of a sandhog tunneling under a river can be fascinating until you have to listen to a play-by-play of every shovel load of muck.
The tunnels from Manhattan Island each had a sandhog casualty rate comparable with combat, in a holy war .
He thought of sandhogs, alive and dead, on his way home, men whose lives and jobs orbited the three spheres of blood, sand, and oil.
They were fine for sandhogs, army sergeants, jungle explorers and the like.
When the sandhogs were digging the subways years ago the soupy ground around Canal Street would flood the shaft.
There were sandhogs and riggers and welders and shipfitters and two circus acrobats.
I can show you figures that prove it's safer to be a sandhog in the Moon than it is to be a file clerk in Des Moines-all things considered.
It was only copper, but to the sandhogs their "find" blinded them with the irresistible glitter of pure gold.
There were sandhogs and riggers and welders and ship fitters and two circus acrobats.