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What is a gusher?

What is a gusher? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One that gushes.
  2. An oil well that has a natural flow and so requires no pumping.
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It thus might be said that the world's petroleum industry began with a gurgle instead of a roaring gusher.
A gusher of cash flow is giving businesses the wherewithal to increase their capital outlays.
The first gusher of the Kirkuk oilfield was not struck till 1926, after the League of Nations had finally awarded the area to Iraq, not Turkey.
Oilfields need lots of money invested over a long time, so the industry prizes stable taxes as much as striking a gusher.
The company just can't seem put a foot wrong as it continues to find gusher after gusher in the northern Indian region of Rajasthan.
In the years after World War II, prospectors went looking for oil across southeastern Utah, hoping for a gusher.

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