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roughneck

noun as in tough person

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McConaughey plays Ron Woodroof, a boozey roughneck who is given 30 days to live after being diagnosed with AIDS.

I wanted to kill the enemy and be a roughneck and cuss and spit tobacco, come home and do it again.

And some of these roughneck humourists will congratulate us on golf becoming one of the vital, red-blooded sports!

"You know, Miss Shaw, this isn't just the roughneck's scorn for the egghead," Travis said.

Will you try and see if you can't think of me as something more than just a dollar-chasing roughneck?

He could almost hear passersby say "goody-good" and "roughneck."

I copped it on the high seas—flotsam and jetsam,' says the 'roughneck.'

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to roughneck, such as: bully, hood, punk, rowdy, ruffian, and tough.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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