Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. One that gushes, especially an abundantly flowing gas or oil well.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. One that gushes
- n. An oil well that has a natural flow and so no pumping is needed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One who gushes.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That which gushes; specifically, in local (American) use, an oil-well which throws out a very large quantity of oil without having to be pumped.
- n. One who is demonstratively emotional or sentimental.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. an oil well with a strong natural flow so that pumping is not necessary
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Examples
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The oil gusher is dead, but the mental trauma it caused along the Gulf of Mexico coast is still very much alive.
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Most people are familiar with the iconic Texas image of the "gusher" - a derrick spewing oil because the reservoir pressure pushes it up the well.
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The gusher is a powerful image that conveys what’s happening in a sense that pictures of oil near marshlands can’t, he said.
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On Facebook, a group dedicated to the oil spill includes suggestions like using explosives to stop the gusher, which is about 5,000 feet underwater.
Gulf Oil Spill Remedies: Corks, Hair Are Among Suggested Ideas
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The phenomenon came to be called a gusher in the United States.
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At a rate of perhaps 5,000 barrels per day, the spill - more properly described as a gusher akin to the proverbial Texas oil strike because of the pressure bearing from beneath the Gulf floor - may turn out to rival the amount of oil lost in the 1989 Exxon Valdez shipping accident.
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The privatization of national security work has been made possible by a nine-year "gusher" of money, as Gates recently described national security spending since the 9/11 attacks.
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Those programs are part of the Technical Services unit that led Raytheon's first-half sales increases even as Defense Secretary Robert Gates called for ending a "gusher" of military purchases.
Raytheon ducks Pentagon budget ax with 'Avatar' 3-D training for soldiers
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But in several recent speeches, Gates has warned that the "gusher" of money that has poured into Pentagon accounts since Sept. 11, 2001, will shrink to a trickle for the foreseeable future, constricted by the federal government's soaring deficit.
Congress may override efforts by Secretary Gates to cut defense spending
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Probably posing as a Texas oilman so you knock OPEC down a peg with that "gusher" story.
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