Word.ws English Dictionary

oil-patch

oil-patch is the alternative form of oilpatch.

Meaning of oilpatch

Noun

oilpatch (plural oilpatches)

  1. A patch or puddle of oil.
    • Near-synonyms: oil spot, oil slick
    Synonyms:
    oil spot, oil slick
  2. (informal) An oil and gas producing region; (metonymic) the oil and gas industry.
    • Like many men of that era and region, he wandered into the oilpatch and worked as a roustabout for a while.

Forms of oil-patch

pluraloil-patches

Questions about oil-patch

What is oil-patch the alternative form of?
Oil-patch is the alternative form of oilpatch.

Words near oil-patch in the dictionary

  1. oil-digger
  2. oil-down
  3. oil-downs
  4. oil-fired
  5. oil-lit
  6. oil-patch
  7. oil-patches
  8. oil-rich
  9. oil-seed camellia
  10. oil-seed camellias
  11. oilable

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: oil-patch (page history and authors); oilpatch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “oil-patch.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/oil-patch. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.