dockworker
nounEtymology From dock + worker.
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.”2009 August 13, N. R. Kleinfield, “Dockworkers See Shoe on Other Foot After a Scandal”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 May 2015:
- The East Coast dockworkers understand what’s happening around the world.2024 October 1, Heather Long, “The real reason 47,000 dockworkers are on strike”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2024:
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