An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
ROUSTABOUT
deckhand, roustabout
(noun) a member of a ship’s crew who performs manual labor
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
roustabout (plural roustabouts)
(chiefly, US) an unskilled laborer, especially at an oilfield, at a circus or on a ship, 19th c.
Anagrams
• tourabouts
Source: Wiktionary
Roust"a*bout`, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
Definition: 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.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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