oilpatch

Definitions

1. A patch or puddle of oil.
2. An oil and gas producing region; (metonymic) the oil and gas industry.
   informal

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: oil spot, oil slick”

“This minority establishes itself at the most vulnerable zone of the national territory, and then slowly spreads like⟳ an oilpatch, propagating itself in concentric ripples through the peasant masses, to the smaller towns, and finally to the capital.”

“Like⟳ many men of that era and region, he wandered into the oilpatch and worked as a roustabout for a while.”

“"Texas Oil Patch Songs": [...] Willet [...] sings a dozen of his own⟳ songs having to do with oil workers [...]”

“Fracturing the formation in the lingo of the oil patch is to perform⟳ a frac job.”

“"Alberta won't plug⟳ oilpatch"”

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