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wildcat |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. (Railroad) Running without control; running along the line without a train; as a wild-cat locomotive. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}] 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}] 2: a cruelly rapacious person [syn: {beast}, {wolf}, {savage}, {brute}] 3: any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Wildcat, WV Zip code(s): 26376
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