English Explanatory Dictionary

shaleionaire

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person who has become rich by allowing natural gas to be extracted from a shale deposit situated below land they own.

Word forms

shaleionaire shaleionaires shalionaire

Etymology

Blend of shale + millionaire.

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