Noun
One of the crew for a musical group or other travelling stage production, especially a stagehand or technician.
(colloquial) A cyclist who rides on the roads rather than off-road.
(colloquial) An alcoholic beverage for the ride, for consumption while one is driving.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgI first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed. Noel Gallagher
Also in 1972, roadie Billy Powell became the keyboardist for the band. Source: Internet
Dymond prescribed a bottle of 100 pills, instructing him to take one pill when he felt a craving for alcohol but not more than three pills per day.sfn By September 1978 Moon was having difficulty playing the drums, according to roadie Dave "Cy" Langston. Source: Internet
He tells the story of Bob Dylan going electric at the Newport Folk Festival, which he witnessed as a roadie working for legendary entrepreneur and music talent manager Albert Grossman. Source: Internet
Harris, 2004, pp. 259–60 In February 1996, when Coxon and James were absent for a lip-synced Blur performance broadcast on Italian television, they were replaced by a cardboard cutout and a roadie, respectively. Source: Internet
There was a blizzard in one of those big winters, we were going up the M1 in the van and you couldn’t see the road; our roadie made a mistake and our van slipped down the embankment. Source: Internet