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oil patch


oil patch

noun

Definition of OIL PATCH

1
: oil field
2
: the petroleum industry

First Known Use of OIL PATCH

circa 1952

Rhymes with OIL PATCH

attach, book-match, bycatch, crosshatch, crosspatch, detach, dispatch, fair catch, from scratch, night latch, nuthatch, outmatch, potlatch, rematch, Sasquatch, slow match, test match, throatlatch, unlatch

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