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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
roadie
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gedge's girlfriend, Sally Murrell, is a roadie and full-time worker for the band.
▪ He spoke to a motor cycle messenger who had once been a roadie for King Crimson.
▪ If a band rents a van or hires a roadie, that is of no interest to the agent.
▪ One fan sang along and plucked at an imaginary guitar, but he turned out to be the roadie.
▪ The Magic lost their last seven roadies and finished 18-23 away from home.
▪ The Managing Director and his Assistant were the band's two roadies.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
roadie

"laborer employed by pop groups while on tour," 1969, from road + -ie.

Wiktionary
roadie

n. 1 A biker. 2 One of the crew for a musical group or other travelling stage production, especially a stagehand or technician. 3 A beer for the ride, for consumption while one is driving; a road soda.

Wikipedia
Roadie (film)

Roadie is a 1980 film directed by Alan Rudolph about a truck driver who becomes a roadie for a traveling rock and roll show. The film stars Meat Loaf and marks his first starring role in a film. There are also cameo appearances by musicians such as Roy Orbison and Hank Williams Jr., and supporting roles played by Alice Cooper and the members of Blondie. The film was marketed with the tagline "Bands make it rock...Roadies make it roll."

Roadie (disambiguation)

Roadie or roadies may refer to:

  • Road crew, the technicians or support personnel who travel with a band on tour
  • Road Dogg, a wrestler formerly known as "The Roadie"
  • " The Ballad of John Bonham's Coke Roadie", a 1987 single by TISM
  • Mobile Roadie, a mobile app manager

Usage examples of "roadie".

Dylan was driven down from Woodstock by his roadie in his anonymous blue Ford station wagon, picking up Aronowitz from his home in Berkeley Hills, New Jersey, on the way.

Their roadie Mai Evans went out first in order to organise transport for John and George.

Brian Epstein was their roadie and bodyguard Mai Evans, who was shot to death by police in his rented duplex at 8122 West 4th Street in Los Angeles on the night of 4 January 1976.

Zackman, but it took the roadie fifteen or twenty seconds to understand what she meant.

Angola ducked a white missile thrown by the roadie named Dude and ran toward me.

When he came home he was a roadie for different bands, a bouncer, then a roadie for the Boo-Yaa T.

Before she could do more than nod curtly to acknowledge something of what she was thinking, however, Greg Lougynes, a huge, ponytailed roadie, twisted around to look at her over one massive shoulder.

The men had their hierarchies from the lowly roadie up to the princely lead vocalists, and so too we had ours.

When the Mothers were finally formed, he worked for us as a roadie, and later joined the band.

That left only the wife of the bass player, who had a baby to care for, our single brother, Abashai, the roadie who did most of the driving, and me.

He was a roadie with a group called The Mysterious Babies, who later changed their name to Train.

Andy, our roadie at the time, makes a run at the old guy, who just knocks him down.

Together with Brian Epstein and their roadies Mai and Neil, they retired to a back room for dinner.

Paul this was a nightmare, the last thing Paul wanted to do was live on some fucking island, whether it was in Ireland or Greece, wherever it was, with John, George and Ringo and their wives and their roadies, and Mai and Neil, all on an island.

When the Roadies Inn had been built in the 1960s it probably looked like a million dollars.