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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field;
[syn: wildcat well, wildcat]

2. a cruelly rapacious person;
[syn: beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat]

3. any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild;


ADJECTIVE (3)

1. outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices;
- Example: "wildcat currency issued by irresponsible banks"
- Example: "wildcat stock speculation"
- Example: "a wildcat airline"
- Example: "wildcat life insurance schemes"

2. without official authorization;
- Example: "an unauthorized strike"
- Example: "wildcat work stoppage"
[syn: unauthorized, unauthorised, wildcat]

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



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Wild-cat \Wild"-cat`\, a.
   1. Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe; -- said to have
      been originally applied to the notes of an insolvent bank
      in Michigan upon which there was the figure of a panther.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Railroad) Running without control; running along the line
      without a train; as, a wild-cat locomotive.
      [1913 Webster]
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

wildcat
    adj 1: 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"
    2: without official authorization; "an unauthorized strike";
       "wildcat work stoppage" [syn: unauthorized, unauthorised,
       wildcat]
    3: (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"
    n 1: an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an
         oil field [syn: wildcat well, wildcat]
    2: a cruelly rapacious person [syn: beast, wolf, savage,
       brute, wildcat]
    3: any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and
       living in the wild