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wildcatter
noun- an independent, risk-taking oil driller who drills wildcat wells US, 1883
- “Deep Salt” Bookman was a rowdy old West Texas wildcatter who earned his nickname by drilling deeper and hitting more saltwater than just about anybody before he finally got lucky and hit oil. — Dan Jenkins, Life Its Ownself, p. 251, 1984
- in trucking, an owner-operator who works independently US
- — Mary Elting, Trucks at Work, 1946
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