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oilpatch

noun

Etymology

From oil + patch.

  1. derived from pieche
  2. inherited from *plakjō✻ — “spot, stain”
  3. inherited from *plakkju✻
  4. inherited from *plæċċ✻
  5. inherited from pacche
  6. compounded as oilpatch — “oil + patch”

Definitions

  1. A patch or puddle of oil.

    • Near-synonyms: oil spot, oil slick

  2. An oil and gas producing region

    An oil and gas producing region; (metonymic) the oil and gas industry.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for oilpatch. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA