fracking
Hydraulic fracturing.
Adjective
- Fucking.
- He's a fracking hawk the likes of which Hopkins never imagined — he's a blue darter. - 1991, James Whitehead, Joiner, →ISBN, page 79:
- As we said before, will someone please agree on a fracking dual videocard standard? - 2006 January 5, “Best Pentium Chipset”, in Maximum PC, page 27:
- It was a fracking nightmare. - 2007, Jose Armando Perez, Betrayed? An Unscheduled Rendezvous, page 68:
Origin
From frack + -ing.
Noun
- Hydraulic fracturing.
- Still, environmentalists look to the U.S., where drilling with fracking is now a “megatrend” and where thousands of wells dot the landscape in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado. They worry about higher greenhouse gas...
- There is strong resistance in much of Europe to fracking, the practice of forcing liquid and sand into wells to release trapped oil and gas. France has a ban on fracking, Germany has imposed a moratorium, and opposition...
- 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...
Origin
From frack (“fracture”) + -ing.