(slang) A dowser searching for subterranean natural resources such as water or oil.
1963, December 7, William Trombley, “The dowser who finds oil wells”, The Saturday Evening Post, issue 43, page 88:
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(slang, by extension) A geophysicist working in the field to explore oil or other natural resources.
: This was a "doodlebugger," a man who searches for oil with divining rods of wondrous shapes and descriptions. And not just any doodlebugger, but one of the hottest noses in the amateur oil-sniffing game – Walter J. Nelson.
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