About The Word Wildcat
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Wildcat
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What's The Definition Of Wildcat?
[n] any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild
[n] an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field [n] a cruelly rapacious person [adj] (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" [adj] without official authorization; "an unauthorized strike"; "wildcat work stoppage" [adj] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Wildcat: beast | brute | explorative | exploratory | savage | unauthorised | unauthorized | unofficial | unsound | wildcat well | wolf Related Terms | Find terms related to Wildcat: See Also | aggressor | assailant | assaulter | attacker | caffer cat | cat | catamount | catamountain | cougar | European wildcat | eyra | Felis | Felis bengalensis | Felis chaus | Felis concolor | Felis manul | Felis ocreata | Felis pardalis | Felis serval | Felis silvestris | Felis tigrina | Felis wiedi | Felis yagouaroundi | genus Felis | jaguarondi | jaguarundi | jaguarundi cat | jungle cat | kaffir cat | leopard cat | lynx | manul | margay | margay cat | mountain lion | ocelot | oil well | oiler | painter | Pallas's cat | panther | panther cat | puma | sand cat | serval | tiger cat | true cat |
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