roughneck

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rough=neck

OXFORD DICTIONARY

roughneck, n. colloq.
1 a rough or rowdy person.
2 a worker on an oil rig.

THESAURUS

roughneck

Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, boor, boorish, bounder, bourgeois, bruiser, bullyboy, cad, carlish, churl, churlish, cloddish, clown, clownish, epicier, goon, gorilla, groundling, gun, gunsel, guttersnipe, hatchet man, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, hooliganish, ill-bred fellow, looby, loobyish, lout, loutish, low fellow, lubberly, lumpish, mucker, mug, mugger, muscle man, nouveau riche, parvenu, peasant, plug-ugly, punk, raffish, ribald, rodman, rough, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffian, ruffianly, strong-arm man, terror, torpedo, tough, trigger man, ugly customer, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yahoo, yokel, yokelish