Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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}, {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
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