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wildcat
English
- 🔊 (of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive“drilling there would be strictly a wildcat operation”
- 🔊 outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices“wildcat currency issued by irresponsible banks”
- 🔊 without official authorization“an unauthorized strike”
- 🔊 any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild
- 🔊 an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
- 🔊 a cruelly rapacious person
Spanish
- 🔊 gato salvaje wildcat