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An oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field
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wildcatter
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A wildcatter is an American term for a person who drills wildcat wells , which are exploration oil wells drilled in areas not known to be oil fields . Notable wildcatters include Glenn McCarthy , Thomas Baker Slick, Sr. and Mike Benedum , Joe Trees , Clem ...
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n. an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field
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n. 1 (context US English) Someone who drills for oil speculatively 2 A worker who participates in a wildcat strike 3 (firearms) person who makes wildcat ammunition and the guns that use them.
Usage examples of wildcatter.
He was a wildcatter, worked for one of the big oil companies, and he dragged me off to West Texas and left me for months at a time in a drafty little single-wide trailer with nobody to talk to but an old bluetick hound.
The trans-Plutonian frontier had attracted a lot of roughneck types from North Americaprospectors, comet miners, ice wildcatters, lumberjacks.