ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Fracking

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈfɹækɪŋ/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Fracking is a noun meaning (oil industry) Hydraulic fracturing.

Meaning

(oil industry) Hydraulic fracturing.

More Meanings

  1. (slang, euphemistic, bowdlerization) Fucking.

Example Sentences

As we said before, will someone please agree on a fracking dual videocard standard?
He's a fracking hawk the likes of which Hopkins never imagined — he's a blue darter.
The fracking boom has been fuelled mostly by overheated investment capital, not by cash flow.
Slowly, they marched toward a bigger role in the fracking industry. When competing Texas frackers looked to freeze the brothers out from the companies that distribute the sand needed to drill, the siblings opened their own sand quarry to thrive.

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Related dictionary entries include crap, dammit, frak, damn, hydrofracking, hydrofracturing.

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