How to pronounce “dry hole”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (engineering) A hole drilled into the ground for oil or gas exploration which fails to yield enough oil or gas to justify the establishment of a well.
• (figurative) Something that brings no success or profit; a dead loss.

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