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General Slang
Sand hog
· noun · construction
Tunnel worker — the crew digging underground and underwater.
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A tunnel construction worker — the people boring subways, water tunnels and bridge caissons below cities. New York's sandhogs (Local 147) built the subway, the Holland Tunnel and the city water supply. Brutal job: compressed air, the bends, constant cave-in risk.
“His grandfather was a sandhog on Water Tunnel No. 3 — buried in the union jacket.”
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Sand hog In A Sentence
His grandfather was a sandhog on Water Tunnel No. 3 — buried in the union jacket.
Origin & Usage
Coined in 1870s New York during the Brooklyn Bridge caisson work, where crews dug in compressed-air chambers below the riverbed.
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