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wildcat   (TTS Sound)

The noun wildcat has 3 senses

• wildcat well, wildcat -- (an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field)


• beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat -- (a cruelly rapacious person)


• wildcat -- (any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild)

The adj wildcat has 3 senses

• wildcat -- (outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices; "wildcat currency issued by irresponsible banks"; "wildcat stock speculation"; "a wildcat airline"; "wildcat life insurance schemes")


• unauthorized, unauthorised, wildcat -- (without official authorization; "an unauthorized strike"; "wildcat work stoppage")


• wildcat -- ((of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive; "drilling there would be strictly a wildcat operation"; "a wildcat mine"; "wildcat drilling"; "wildcat wells")