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Wildcatting

To drill for oil in an area where no oil has been found before.

📖 Definitions of "Wildcatting"

verb
  1. 1

    To drill for oil in an area where no oil has been found before.

    "You'd have to be very rich or very desperate to go wildcatting that far east."

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