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casca-grossa — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • roughneck noun A labourer on an oil rig or in the oilpatch, either skilled or semiskilled.

Senses

casca-grossa is used for these senses in English:

  • roughneck (colloquial, chiefly, US) Someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person. [from 19th c.]

roughneck — full definition

  1. noun A labourer on an oil rig or in the oilpatch, either skilled or semiskilled.
  2. noun A dirty or low-paid worker, a labourer; an ironworker in an ironworks or a steelworker in a steelworks.
  3. noun Someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person.

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