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wildcat

noun

1 wildcat

An exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field.

synonym: wildcat well.

2 wildcat

A cruelly rapacious person.

synonyms: beast, brute, savage, wolf.

Dutch: dier, wild dier, beest
Polish: brutal

3 wildcat

Any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild.

adjective

1 wildcat

Outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices.

Roget 665: in danger etc. n.; endangered etc. v.; fraught with danger; dangerous, hazardous, perilous, parlous, periculous; unsafe, unprotected ... show more

2 wildcat

Without official authorization:
— Wildcat work stoppage.

synonyms: unauthorised, unauthorized.

3 wildcat

of a mine or oil well Drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive.


Moby thesaurus: Jezebel, Leo, Siberian tiger, adventurous, aleatory, beldam, bitch-kitty, bobcat, cat-a-mountain, catamount, chancy, cheetah, cougar, dicey, disobedient, full of risk, fury, grimalkin, hag, hazardous ... show more.

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