roadie
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7.1
- noun
- /ˈroʊdi/
- Jargon
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técnico de gira
- As a roadie, my job was to set up the sound equipment before each concert.
- work as a roadie
- roadie for the band
- become a roadie
Let's say you have a, a roadie who had a bad day and they couldn't care less about your equipment.
- Let's say you have a, a roadie who had a bad day and they couldn't care less about your equipment.
- And our our roadie was screaming and saying I can't feel my legs, am I going to be OK ragging up am I going to be OK?
Examples
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William gets up, nods hello to the roadie and his date on the bunk above.
Fiction book (2000) -
No, dude, I was a roadie for REO Speedwagon for 15 years.
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The next time I saw him, he was the roadie for my band on tour for a few weeks.
Blog text (19) -
I was working as a roadie.
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Do you fancy being my roadie in Moscow on Tuesday?
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I hung around and just sort of became their roadie.
Fiction book (2000) -
The guy who sold it to us was a roadie for Springsteen.
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Looks like he used to be a roadie for Aerosmith.
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I got them from a roadie for the Black Crowes.
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He was my roadie, used to carry my amps.
How Involved
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Roadie comes from road + -ie, where 'road' means the route you travel and -ie makes a familiar name; so a roadie is someone who works 'on the road' with a band to set up and move equipment.