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Thriller vs Roughneck - What's the difference?

thriller | roughneck |

As nouns the difference between thriller and roughneck

is that thriller is something that thrills while roughneck is any labourer on an oil rig.

As a verb roughneck is

to work as a laborer on an oil rig.

thriller

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something that thrills.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=December 29 , author=Paul Doyle , title=Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=While Arsenal had enjoyed a Boxing Day break thanks to the cancellation of their game against West Ham, Newcastle had come out of the wrong end of a thriller at Old Trafford and Pardew said that strain accounted for his side conceding four goals at the Emirates after Demba Ba had drawn Newcastle level for the third time in the 69th minute.}}
  • (chiefly) A suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play or film.

    • Synonyms

    * pulp novel

    Hyponyms

    * horror movie, hardboiled crime fiction

    Hypernyms

    * detective story, mystery novel, whodunit, crime fiction

    See also

    * chiller ----

    roughneck

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any labourer on an oil rig
  • A rowdy or uncouth person

    • See also

    *roustabout, oil trash *(wikipedia "roughneck")

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To work as a laborer on an oil rig
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 13, Michael Brick, Racing's Last Frontier, New York Times citation
    • , passage=There was a time not long ago when this region appeared as some enduring mystification, its citizenry best known for roughnecking on the North Slope