rouster

noun

ˈrau̇-stər How to pronounce rouster (audio)
Definition of rousternext
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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  1. stevedore
  2. roustabout
  3. longshoreman
  4. dockhand
  5. dockworker
Noun
  • America dodged a sledgehammer on Thursday night, when striking stevedores reached a tentative agreement to return to work.
    Dan Primack, Axios, 4 Oct. 2024
  • What do port workers do? Longshoremen, also referred to as stevedores, handle cargo from incoming ships.
    Reuters, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2024
Definition of stevedore
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of roustabout
Noun
  • Background players in period costume — an ill-fitting brown suit, a longshoreman’s jacket (no berets, thankfully) — walked back and forth holding a briefcase, a cigarette and a shopping bag (no baguettes, thankfully).
    Brett Berk, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Daggett was one of those longshoremen at that time who traveled to the West Coast.
    Lori Ann LaRocco, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of longshoreman
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of dockhand
Noun
  • Joy is not what many Americans feel this first week of October as war comes to the Middle East, survivors of Hurricane Helene deal with the wreckage, and the first dockworkers’ strike since 1977 for several days stopped half the nation’s ocean shipping.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 5 Oct. 2024
  • However, the distortions could be less severe than initially expected: Late yesterday, an agreement was reached and the massive dockworkers strike was suspended to allow for further negotiations.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of dockworker
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