WILDCAT WELL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field

Synonyms:

wildcat; wildcat well

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("wildcat well" is a kind of...):

oil well; oiler (a well that yields or has yielded oil)

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