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What is a wildcatter?

What is a wildcatter? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (US) Someone who drills for oil speculatively.
  2. A worker who participates in a wildcat strike.
  3. (firearms) A person who makes wildcat cartridges and the guns that use them.
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In 1920 she moved to Los Angeles with her third husband who worked as a wildcatter in the oil industry.
Cooper plays Jeff Dawson, a wildcatter hunting the black gold who must contend with bandits who threaten to blow up his wells.
However its use was commercialised by a Texas wildcatter called George Mitchell, the sort of risk-taker America has in abundance.
Learning to be a cowgirl on Wildcatter Ranch and Spa in the Texan hills included clay shooting, archery, off-road driving and, of course, horse riding.
Big Oil now acts more like a risk-averse bank than a wildcatter, following Wall Street dictates on cash flow instead of Texas traditions of risk-taking.
Forget the cowboy boots Dream ticket ReprintsAmong Texan artists the big change, in Mr Auping's view, is that they have dropped the wildcatter mentality of a generation ago and abandoned any last trace of regional folksiness.

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