SANDHOG

Sandhog

Sandhog is the slang term given to urban miners, construction workers who work underground on a variety of excavation projects in New York City. Generally these projects involve tunneling, caisson excavation, road building, or some other type of underground construction or mining projects. The miners work with a variety of equipment from tunnel boring machines to blasting a path for the project they are building. The term is an American colloquialism.

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sand hog

Noun



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sandhog

Noun

  1. a person employed to dig tunnels.


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