prudhoe bay

1. 1.

   a bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968

   Broaderbay

   Part ofAlaska

Questions about prudhoe bay

What does prudhoe bay mean?

prudhoe bay means "a bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968".

Is prudhoe bay a common word?

prudhoe bay is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.