Construction & Buildings Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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rod buster n. Former world’s welterweight boxing champion, Fritzie Zivic of Pittsburgh now is a “rod buster” for the Penn Southern Construction Company. [English Construction & Buildings Employment Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 16, 2006)

rod-buster n. Her husband pitched in at the beginning to help her struggling business but kept his $40,000-a-year job as a union “rod-buster” to keep the family going. [English Construction & Buildings Employment Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 16, 2006)

rodbuster n. There are 98 men and two women on the job—carpenters, ironworkers (“rodbusters,” they are called), laborers and some others. [English Construction & Buildings Employment] [full cite] (Aug. 14, 2006)

rodbuster n. Rodbuster climbs reinforcing bars at YST pit. [English Construction & Buildings Employment Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 16, 2006)

roofing square n. “I’m at the point where I need to stay in shape to maintain a certain output, workwise,” said Mr. Entrekin, 51. “When I was in my prime, I could nail 14 squares a day. Now I’m happy with 6.” (One roofing square is equal to 100 square feet.) [English Construction & Buildings Jargon] [full cite] (Oct. 26, 2006)

rough in n. Plumbers use what’s called a “rough in” sheet that comes with exposed sinks to place the water and drain lines inside the wall exactly where they need to stick out under the fixture. [English Construction & Buildings Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 30, 2007)

rubblize v. The road is about 25 years old, Biebel said, and the work involves breaking up the old concrete pavement to create a new road base, a process called “rubblizing,” and paving the street over with new asphalt. New streetlights are going in as well. [English Construction & Buildings Jargon] [full cite] (May. 10, 2006)

scab n. Cook also said in some areas, notably on Warren and Fifth streets, when companies would need to replace bricks, they would take the brick out and pour in concrete, making what is known as a scab. [English Construction & Buildings Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 4, 2008)

shape v. Each weekday United Hispanic workers “shape”—search for work—by driving throughout Manhattan and the Bronx and visiting job sites.…As the shape van wound down to ground zero and back to the Bronx, a picture of construction employment in the city emerged.…By the time Mr. Mackey returned to the shape hall shortly after noon, several members were snoozing in the back of the van. No members got work that morning, but that was not the shape’s sole purpose.…Mr. Haughton set up in a storefront at Fifth Avenue and 125th Street, where he and the other founders of Harlem Fight Back began organizing demonstrations, going to court and “shaping” black workers.…On the day of the shape, after the vans returned, about 50 workers convened in the shape hall. [English Construction & Buildings Employment Slang] [full cite] (Feb. 4, 2007)

sheetrockero n. Necesito un floteador y un sheetroquero. Soy contratista y necesito alguien que trabaje con calidad y limpieza. [Spanglish Construction & Buildings] [full cite] (May. 7, 2007)

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