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Adjective wildcat has 3 senses
  1. wildcat - 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"
    Antonym:     sound (indirect, via unsound)
  2. unauthorized, unauthorised, wildcat - without official authorization; "an unauthorized strike"; "wildcat work stoppage"
    Antonym: official (indirect, via unofficial)
  3. wildcat - (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"
    Antonyms:     nonexploratory, nonexplorative, unexploratory, unexplorative (indirect, via exploratory)
,Noun wildcat has 3 senses
  1. wildcat well, wildcat - an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
    --1 is a kind of oil well, oiler
  2. beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat - a cruelly rapacious person
    --2 is a kind of attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter
  3. wildcat - any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild
    --3 is a kind of     cat, true cat
    --3 is a member of Felis, genus Felis
    --3 has particulars:
     sand cat; European wildcat, catamountain, Felis silvestris; cougar, puma, catamount, mountain lion, painter, panther, Felis concolor; ocelot, panther cat, Felis pardalis; jaguarundi, jaguarundi cat, jaguarondi, eyra, Felis yagouaroundi; kaffir cat, caffer cat, Felis ocreata; jungle cat, Felis chaus; serval, Felis serval; leopard cat, Felis bengalensis; tiger cat, Felis tigrina; margay, margay cat, Felis wiedi; manul, Pallas's cat, Felis manul; lynx, catamount
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