Frocking vs Fracking - What's the difference?
frocking | fracking |
(oil drilling) Hydraulic fracturing.
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(slang, euphemistic, bowdlerization) Fucking.
* {{quote-book, 1991, James Whitehead, Joiner, page=79, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=hl1YoavrXGYC&pg=PA79, isbn=1557282048
, passage=He's a fracking hawk the likes of which Hopkins never imagined — he's a blue darter. }}
* {{quote-news, 2006, January, , Best Pentium Chipset, Maximum PC
, passage=As we said before, will someone please agree on a fracking dual videocard standard?}}
* {{quote-book, 2007, Jose Armando Perez, Betrayed? An Unscheduled Rendezvous, page=68, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=9FFGE2IE89AC&pg=RA1-PA68
, passage=It was a fracking nightmare.}}
As a verb frocking
is .As a noun fracking is
(oil drilling) hydraulic fracturing.As an adjective fracking is
(slang|euphemistic|bowdlerization) fucking.fracking
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(-) (wikipedia fracking)Quebec between a rock and a hard place on gas from shale," Toronto Star , 25 July (retrieved 26 July 2010):
- 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 emissions compared to conventional natural gas—because of the energy used to get the gas—and water contamination.
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