Crossword clues for roustabout
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roustabout \Roust"a*bout`\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] 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. [Western U.S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly US English) an unskilled laborer, especially at an oilfield, at a circus or on a ship
WordNet
n. a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor [syn: deckhand]
Wikipedia
Roustabout is a 1964 American musical feature film starring Elvis Presley as a singer who takes a job working with a struggling carnival. The film was produced by Hal Wallis and directed by John Rich from a screenplay by Anthony Lawrence and Allan Weiss. The screenplay was nominated for a Writers Guild of America award for best written American musical although Roustabout received a lukewarm review in Variety. The film's soundtrack album was one of Elvis Presley's most successful, reaching no. 1 on the Billboard Album Chart.
Roustabout is a traditional term used to describe a fairground or circus worker, which is now used in the oil industry. An oil roustabout refers to a worker who maintains all things in the oil field. He or she sets up oil well heads, oil lead lines connected to stock tanks. Roustabouts will maintain saltwater disposal pumps, lease roads, lease mowing, create dikes around tank batteries on a lease, etc. An oil roustabout has no limits in the oil industry and can, and will do any and all oil field work, including roughneck drilling, oil well completion and well service, and even chemical work. An oil field roustabout will also do all things that an oil field pumper would have to do.
"Roustabout" is also an official classification of natural gas and oil rig personnel. Roustabouts working in oil fields typically perform various jobs requiring little training. However, they frequently turn out to be long-term employees and take on more difficult and sometimes dangerous jobs as they gain experience. Most go on to at least become “ roughnecks” if they work for the rig company for more than a few months.
An early 2010 survey by Careercast.com of the best and worst jobs — based on five criteria: environment, income, employment outlook, physical demands and stress — rated 'roustabout' as the worst job. Nonetheless, the anecdotal and subjective experience of an actual roustabout reveals the excitement of a challenging, adventurous job.
Roustabout is the twenty-first album by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2999, in October 1964. It was a soundtrack to the film of the same name. Recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California, on March 2 and 3, and April 29, 1964. It peaked at number one on the Billboard Top LP's chart. It was certified Gold on May 20, 1988 by the Recording Industry Association of America. The album would be Presley's final soundtrack to reach number one and his last number one album until 1973's Aloha From Hawaii: Via Satellite.
A roustabout is a type of worker. The word may also refer to:
- Roustabout (film), starring Elvis Presley
- Roustabout (album), the soundtrack to the film by the same name (see above)
- "Roustabout", a track on Mark Simpson's folk Special Agent (album)
- "Roustabout", a song by Bow Wow Wow from When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going
- Roustabout, 1933 winner of the Grand Union Hotel Stakes horse race
- Mark Roustabout, member of The Force (band)
- Roustabout, a character in the Astro City comic book series
Usage examples of "roustabout".
Goesle was doing that, Florian went to the adjoining room where the roustabouts were dining, and called Aleksandr Banat away from the table.
Clover Lee continued to shout, and someone somewhere shrilly blew a whistle, and Florian and Banat and numerous roustabouts poured out of the chapiteau, each with a tent stake.
This clothing served as a uniform for The Watchmen in training, but also made plausible working gear for them in their secondary roles as drillers, rig mechanics, floormen, roustabouts and other categories of occupation aboard the drillship half a mile off-shore.
He nodded at Kenny and, without so much as a glance toward the Foosball game, headed for the door of the Roustabout.
The roustabouts cut long, woody branches on the left side of the road and Ray, Obie, and Shellabarger slipped them under the rear tires.
They passed a steady line of roustabouts packing up the paraphernalia into train cars, carrying rolls of thick ropes over their shoulders or slung between two men, iron bars and beams and collapsed sections of cages, welding equipment, and piles of other stuff Peter was too tired to identify.
Numerous boats lined up along the docks, stageplanks securing them to the piers that teemed with shouting, whistling, singing roustabouts loading freight: feed, flour, sugar, and other supplies for the plantations up and down the river.
Roustabouts rolled the runways out again and connected them with loud clangs to the cages in the center ring.
Four long trucks were parked alongside the generators, and roustabouts busily loaded and unloaded equipment from the rear and side doors of their trailers.
In the outer rings, Peter saw, clowns and roustabouts were making preparations for another act.
Five or six roustabouts stood ready to reinforce the cage with wooden beams.
He stared up at the shadows on the ornate ceiling, listening to the the roustabouts still working in the darkness, hammering and pulling and singing.
The camera panned the length of the runway to take in the expectant roustabouts and the cage sitting on the loading pallet.
The roustabouts and camera crew ran around the ship to keep in shape, or read paperback books on the few deck chairs, or hung out with the sailors, trying to pick up information about the ports they would be seeing.
Peter tended the animals with the roustabouts that afternoon while Shellabarger and OBie confirmed advance preparations on the radiotelephone.