wildcat
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Is wildcat a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of wildcat?
Definition
noun (English)
1. A cat that lives in the wilderness, specifically:Synonyms: feral catUK
2. A cat that lives in the wilderness, specifically:US
3. A cat that lives in the wilderness, specifically:Examples: "2003 April 24, CNN Upon checking it out, we found a total of 13 newborn wildcats: nine newborn tigers and two newborn leopards."alt-ofalternativeuncommon
4. (figurative) A person who acts like a wildcat, (usually) a violent and easily-angered person or a sexually vigorous one.Examples: "2002 September 26, The Young and the Restless Anyone who's man enough to have landed a wildcat like you had to be quite a guy."Synonyms: desert catfiguratively
5. (American football) An offensive formation with an unbalanced line and a snap directly to the running back rather than the quarterback.
6. (nautical) A wheel that can be adjusted so as to revolve either with or on the shaft of a capstan.
adj (English)
1. (usually derogatory) Of or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially:Examples: "Then the development of the home country was neglected for some wildcat idea of bringing up the backward people of other lands."; "[…] the Tank being a small arena theatre located out between a traffic analysis firm and a wildcat transistor outfit that hadn't been there last year and wouldn't be this coming but meanwhile was underselling even the Japanese and hauling in loot by the steamshovelful."derogatorynot-comparableusually
2. (usually derogatory) Of or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially:datedderogatorynot-comparableusually
3. (usually derogatory) Of or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially:derogatorynot-comparableusually
4. (usually derogatory) Of or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially:derogatorynot-comparableusually
5. (firearms) Of or concerning customized or hand-made cartridges.not-comparable
verb (English)
1. (oil industry) To drill for oil in an area where no oil has been found before.Examples: "You'd have to be very rich or very desperate to go wildcatting that far east."; "His pitch was that fracking had transformed the production of gas from a hit-or-miss proposition to one that operated with an on and off switch. It was manufacturing, not wildcatting."
Definition source: Wiktionary