as in stevedore
one who loads and unloads ships at a port
a hard-muscled man who certainly looked like he had worked all his life as a rouster
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Noun
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The jobs reflected in the survey include dockworkers, stevedores, truck drivers, financing and administrative positions.—
Tom Hudson,
Sun Sentinel,
10 July 2025 -
His father was a stevedore and his mother an autodidact who aspired to something better than the prefab house where her family lived.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
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West End performer Simon Bailey takes on the lead role of a modern-day showman, while newcomer Aaliya Mai makes her professional debut as Max, a shy young roustabout.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
24 Sep. 2024
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The musical’s book by Rick Elice, based not just on the 2011 movie but also on the 2006 novel by Sara Gruen, is set among the performers and roustabouts of a ramshackle circus at the depths of the Depression.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2024
Noun
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Finish the night at Sunny’s Bar, a neighborhood institution that first served longshoremen more than 100 years ago.—
Ellen Carpenter,
AFAR Media,
17 July 2025
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The restaurant started in 1904 by serving lunches to the longshoremen who worked the Brooklyn docks.—
Florence Fabricant,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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Two of the eight tainted Tylenol bottles came from Jewel stores in the northwest suburbs, though neither had passed through the Melrose Park warehouse where Arnold had long worked for Jewel as a dockhand.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Sep. 2022
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Alhonna is the genesis of the crime drama, where screenwriter Bill Dubuque worked as a dockhand in his youth at the comfortable, somewhat dated, lake retreat.—
Mike and Wendy Pramik,
cleveland,
7 July 2022
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But with a tentative deal put in place by January, which averted a second strike, the union of 45,000 dockworkers got some reprieve on automation—at least enough to maintain a certain number of jobs.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
11 July 2025
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But the agreement effectively kicked the can on other vital issues for dockworkers, especially related to job security.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2025
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“Rouster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rouster. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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