Dockworker
noun
noun ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who works on the dock of a harbor or shipyard, usually employed to load or unload freight.
"Red Hook is fabled dockworker territory, not necessarily for inspirational reasons. The mob violence and union corruption that long defined the piers were part of the underpinnings of the classic 1954 movie “On the Waterfront.”"
- 2 a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port wordnet
Example
More examples"Red Hook is fabled dockworker territory, not necessarily for inspirational reasons. The mob violence and union corruption that long defined the piers were part of the underpinnings of the classic 1954 movie “On the Waterfront.”"
Etymology
From dock + worker.
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