frack

[frak]

verb

1. to engage in hydraulic fracturing of (underground rock, or an area containing it) in order to extract natural gas or oil.

Example Sentences

Flog and frack everything that moves.

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He likes Vladimir Putin, and he wants to frack across our countryside and gas can really end up putting up people's bills.

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Trump pledged to the estimated 500,000 Pennsylvanians employed in the petroleum industry that if elected, “we will frack, frack, frack and drill, baby, drill.”

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He encouraged the “WordPress community to vote with your wallet,” and not give it to a company that’s “going to frack every bit of value out of it until it withers?”

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The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission granted the mineral rights to several oil and gas companies, allowing them to frack for oil and gas under land owned by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the Ohio Department of Transportation, including state parks and designated wildlife areas.

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