wildcat well

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   an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field

   Synonymswildcat

   Broaderoil well

Questions about wildcat well

What does wildcat well mean?

wildcat well means "an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field".

What is another word for wildcat well?

Close synonyms include wildcat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wildcat well a common word?

wildcat well 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.