spillionaire

spillionaire
n.
A person who receives a large settlement as compensation for an oil spill.
Example Citation:
"Researchers now suspect that much of the most costly clean-up in history, the summers spent scrubbing individual beach stones and 'rehabilitating' otters, did little, if anything, to restore Prince William Sound--and may have hurt. . . .It did make humans feel better, however, and it did make a handful of the displaced fishermen and women who chartered their boats for cleanup for thousands of dollars a day into 'spillionaires.' "
— William Booth, "Spill's Residue Still Sticks in Alaska's Craw," The Washington Post, March 23, 1999
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