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Wildcat

noun

1.

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

2.

A cruelly rapacious person. Synonyms: beast, brute, savage, wolf.

3.

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

adjective

1.

Outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices. "Wildcat stock speculation" , "A wildcat airline" , "Wildcat life insurance schemes"

2.

Without official authorization. Synonyms: unauthorised, unauthorized. "Wildcat work stoppage"

3.

(of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive. "A wildcat mine" , "Wildcat drilling" , "Wildcat wells"

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"Wildcat" Quotes from Famous Books

... summer of that year the meat-markets in that section of the country were remarkably bad. It was sometimes difficult for a panther or a wildcat to find enough food to keep her family at all decently, and there were cases of great destitution. In years before there had been plenty of deer, wild turkey, raccoons, and all sorts of good things, but they were very scarce now. This was not the first time that our young ...

— Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy • Frank Richard Stockton

... to lead. His bewildered smile is a prelude often to a strong move in action. Older and wiser men learn to love this lean wildcat who knows the strategic spots in the anatomy of the foe; who can spit scorn at the Agrarians and venomous contempt at the Liberals; who dares to glorify a government of authority and of force as though it were a democracy; ...

— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino

... and other feeble folk were to gather food for the warriors, of whom the principal ones were the Bear, Wolf, Wildcat and Bison. The Swallow served as messenger to the birds, and the swift Trout carried the news to the finny tribes, for all were ...

— Wigwam Evenings - Sioux Folk Tales Retold • Charles Alexander Eastman and Elaine Goodale Eastman

... out in all directions to gain the earlies possible intelligence of the progress of the movement, and to make such resistance to it as might be possible. One of these outposts was stationed at Wildcat Gap, an inexpressibly wild and desolate region, sixty miles from Camp Dick Robinson, where the road entering Kentucky from Tennessee at Cumberland Gap crosses the Wildcat ...

— The Red Acorn • John McElroy

... he cried in despair, "is it possible that you think me capable of murdering a wounded adversary? Is it.... Be quiet, you little wildcat, you," he added. ...

— The Point Of Honor - A Military Tale • Joseph Conrad

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