Other forms: roadies
A roadie is the crew member who moves and sets up the gear. On the road as a roadie, ask a roadie, the roadies loaded out.
The job is heavy lifting on a clock: load in, set up, run the show, load out, drive overnight. Everything a band does on stage rests on the roadies having built it in the afternoon.
1nounroadieThe crew member who moves and sets up the gear.
“After the concert, the roadies packed the drums and speakers into the truck.”
roadie is a worker.
Middle English
rode
English
road
English, today
roadie
Built from
From road + -ie. road comes from Middle English rode. From Middle English rode, rade (“ride, journey”), from Old English rād (“riding, hostile incursion”), from Proto-West Germanic raidu, from Proto-Germanic raidō (“a ride”), from Proto-Indo-European reydʰ- (“to ride”). a doublet of raid, acquired from Scots -. Cognates include West Frisian reed (paved trail/road, driveway). The current primary meaning of "street, way for traveling" originated relatively late — Shakespeare seemed to expect his audiences to find it unfamiliar — and probably arose through reinterpretation of roadway (“a way for riding on”) as saying way twice, in other words as a tautological compound.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA