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Use "roughnecks" in a sentence
"Wellsboro, business at In My Shoes is up 20 percent in the past year as the "roughnecks" have flocked to town from the gas fields of Texas and Wyoming."
"There was much anger at the roughnecks, but there was no doubt who the shared enemy was: Boris Johnson."
"But he led Texas from the age of cowboys and cotton farmers, roughnecks and Rangers, to the modern era of astronauts and engineers, high tech and telecom."