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workingman
noun as in blue-collar worker
noun as in worker
Example Sentences
Initially, the group had been to a pub before moving on to Tonyrefail workingman’s club, where witnesses described them as each having bought drinks.
If the court kept overturning the New Deal, he reasoned, there would be “marching farmers and marching miners and marching workingmen throughout the land.”
While running for the Mississippi governorship in 1975, Charles Finch — better known to his constituents as Cliff — endeavored to establish himself as “the workingman’s candidate.”
Have Democrats retreated so far from their workingman roots that their knee-jerk impulse is to dump on a blue-collar guy who highlights “folks in the street, ain’t got nothin’ to eat”?
The 50-year-old added his addiction grew as a result of performing in bands at various workingmen's clubs across south Wales.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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