[ noun ] a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor <noun.person>
Roustabout \Roust"a*bout`\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs. [Western U.S.]
In the one-store hamlet of Spotted Horse, former roustabout Craig McGee, a slight man in scuffed boots and torn jeans, downs a beer and reviews his job search: tried to get hired as a dogcatcher but wasn't qualified, tried for a jailer's job but failed.
But in a way it's a story that has to be told." At one point in the film, Vince, the unemployed roustabout, delivers a monologue that frames the movie's political message.
The same might be said for the owner, a white-whiskered roustabout by the name of Irving Greenblatt, who is something of a latterday Hemingway.
Mike Huber, a roustabout, is even making it in his new career as an entrepreneur.