black gold

American  

noun

1. petroleum.

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Etymology

Origin of black gold

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Every five years, the fading US town of Taft puts on a days-long "Oildorado" festival to celebrate its glory days at the center of California's black gold rush.

From Barron's

The League Two football club said the circular design in white, black, gold and red brought together its "heritage, ambition and modernity".

From BBC

That conference, among other things, turned the Congo over to Belgium’s King Leopold II, who soon killed off half its population to extract its latex rubber, the “black gold” of that day.

From Salon

Locals, whose main source of livelihood has been agriculture and fishing, told the BBC that since the discovery of oil, or what some refer to as "black gold", their home had been pumped for profit - by major oil companies, by oil thieves and by corrupt politicians.

From BBC

In a wonderful bit of symmetry, Pico Canyon, the site of the state’s first oil strike — California’s “black gold”— is just a few miles from Placerita.

From Los Angeles Times