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doodlebuggers

doodlebuggers is the plural of doodlebugger.

Meaning of doodlebugger

Noun

doodlebugger (plural doodlebuggers)

  1. (slang) A dowser searching for subterranean natural resources such as water or oil.
    • This was a "doodlebugger," a man who searches for oil with divining rods of wondrous shapes and descriptions. And not just any doodlebugger, but one of the hottest noses in the amateur oil-sniffing game – Walter J. Nelson.1963, December 7, William Trombley, “The dowser who finds oil wells”, The Saturday Evening Post, issue 43, page 88
  2. (broadly, slang) A geophysicist working in the field to explore oil or other natural resources.

Questions about doodlebuggers

What is doodlebuggers the plural of?
Doodlebuggers is the plural of doodlebugger.

Words near doodlebuggers in the dictionary

  1. doodle-bugs
  2. doodlebrain
  3. doodlebrains
  4. doodlebug
  5. doodlebugger
  6. doodlebuggers
  7. doodlebugging
  8. doodlebugs
  9. doodled
  10. doodlehead
  11. doodleheads

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